In the beginning...

It was late winter 1998 and my husband, Andy and I were eating supper by the glow of grow lights.  I had been running a gardening program at Orchard School in South Burlington for 5 years at that point and seedlings seemed to be taking over what was the dining area.  I had a dream of owning my own greenhouse business but was waiting for the "perfect location, greenhouse, time, money" etc.  I looked at Andy and said, "you know, I know how to do this...grow beautiful plants, teach people about them.  And nobody needs this many seedlings for their own personal gardens.  I am going to start my business right now."  A few nights later I sat down with my daughter, Jaska, to brainstorm possible names for this new business.  We wrote down all the words that we liked and began putting them together.  Some of the combinations were just silly, some not very catchy, most did not speak to either of us at all.  On the list was the word dance and it suddenly struck me...dance...that was it.  When I work with plants I feel as if  I am dancing with them, sometimes I am the leader, sometimes they are. I also remembered that one of my favorite songs was She's Just Dancing by David Wilcox.  Voila!  The name Just Dancing was born.