Willie Coleman recounts her lifelong involvement with gardening and her memories of her family. She discusses growing up in Matthews, North Carolina, attending school in Steele Creek, living through the Great Depression as a child, and working at a Pepsi bottling plant and for a laundry business in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Coleman describes her involvement with the community garden and greenhouse in the Wilmore neighborhood in Charlotte where she lives, differences between gardening at the community garden and at home, changes in gardening over the course of her life, and why it's important for young people to learn about gardening.