Nature and Spirituality

BIOGRAPHY

After a decade of climbing up the Corporate Ladder, Joanne Taylor resigned from the IBM Corporation, climbed back down to earth, hung up her blue suit, put on her blue jeans, and started her personal gardening business, Taylor Gardens. Her business has been nominated for the Merrill Lynch Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Ms. Taylor is also a winner of both Blue and Red Ribbon awards in gardening contests sponsored by Philadelphia's Horticultural Society. She has served as a judge for the Society's City Gardens Contest. She has judged gardens along the streets of West Philadelphia where urban gardeners grow plants in old porcelain bathtubs, paint cans and old shoes.

Not only does Joanne provide gardening services for some of the most affluent clients located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, but she has also taught inner-city children for the Grow in Peace Program in Philadelphia. Joanne knows first hand that people from all walks of life have a need to grow.

"As an award-winning gardener by both hobby and profession, I have had the privilege of being exposed to the things of nature on an almost daily basis. The outdoors became my office.

The sky represents my office ceiling. The trees represent the walls; dirt paths make up the hallways; evergreen

hedges serve as partitions; and my workspace is the garden itself. My executive chair is the ground; and my co-workers are the birds, bees, bugs, spiders, squirrels, snakes, and sometimes even wild peacocks. It was in the garden where I first discovered over sixty motivational lessons for living planted in nature.

After my first book, Down to Earth, and with so many life lessons found in the garden, I knew my next mission would be to step out of the flower beds, and out of the church, to climb higher ground by traveling west to visit some of the best classrooms nature has to offer in order to further examine, first hand, the wisdom that the Earth speaks."

Joanne chillin' in 115 degree desert in AZ

Click here to read my Gardening Column

Joanne is a studying photographer and most of the photographs she uses in her PowerPoint Presentations for Lectures

and Conferences, as well as, the photos for her column and websites were taken by her.

Joanne has also been featured on televisions Fox 29 Good Day Philadelphia morning show, Highlighting Christianity Program, and The Stefany J. Television Show.

Her book and her gardening business have been featured in newspapers such as The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia

Tribune, Main Line Times, as well as, a

host of other newspapers.

She has

also been interviewed

on radio stations such as WVCH, WFIL, WDAS, Power 99 FM, Gospel Highway Eleven, and a host of other radio broadcast stations around the country.

Ms.Taylor has been published in a number of newapapers and magazines such as WOW, e-zine, Black Diaspora, The Free Press, The Black Suburan Journal, and The Connection Newspaper. Joanne's second release, Higher Ground" is coming soon...

Book Specifications:

Release Date: May 2005

ISBN: 0-89957-144-1

AVAILABLE IN YOUR FAVORITE BOOKSTORE!

YOU DON'T NEED

A GREEN THUMB TO

LEARN FROM

GOD'S GREEN EARTH!!

SCHEDULE YOUR DOWN TO EARTH OR HIGHER GROUND PRESENTATION TODAY!

MY 2ND BOOK, "HIGHER GROUND"

IS COMING SOON!!!

JOANNE TAYLOR

610-644-0295

EARTH580@AOL.COM

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