Christie Brinkley – vegetable gardener

In the garden with Christie Brinkley

Newsday
Interview with Jessica Damiano
August 14, 2009

How did you become interested in gardening?

I grew up on the beach in Malibu, and we didn’t have gardens there. My house was on a pile of sand. My mom had a couple of ice plants in a container on the deck, so, for me to get my hands in the soil, I was so intimidated. I thought I had to be an expert.

I didn’t know what to do, so I called a gardener, Scott Chaskey, whose son was on my son’s baseball team. He’s a major organic farmer out here and he came to my house and demystified it for me. But I still throw the seeds in and read the back of the pack.

Full interview on Newsday (but it’s a paid site).

Christie Brinkley’s Facebook website here.