Jane Luettgen has a garage full of budding possibility. Boxes of neatly stacked plastic containers for plants sit beside workbenches cleared and ready for assembly line transplanting. Seedlings stand at attention in perfect rows in a glassed greenhouse extension, as though waiting for the order to jump one-by-one into the prepared garden beds on the other side of the glass. Luettgen, a Colorado State University Extension Master Gardener, is itching to get her plants in the ground.
“I mostly do it because I like plants and I like to see people happy,” said Luettgen, who has been a Colorado Master Gardener for six years and grows vegetables, flowers and herbs on about an acre of land in Windsor. “I love seeing the bees and the butterflies and donating fresh food to those in need.”