Juanita Bartlett Garrison grew up on a peach farm near Cochran, Georgia. After graduating in Journalism from University of Georgia, Juanita pursued her newspaper reporting career. While on the news staff for the Seneca Journal Tribune, she was set up on a blind date with a young farmer named Ed Garrison and six months later, May 8, 1955, they married.
Busy rearing 6 children, Juanita was also busy with farm life: canning and freezing vegetables, volunteering as 4-H leader, giving tours of the farm to school children, and helping to put cows back in fences in the middle of the night when no farm employees were around. She taught pubic school for some years, journalism at Anderson College for one year, and has taught Sunday school at Welcome Baptist Church for 40 plus years.
Mrs. Garrison has always enjoyed writing and gardening. She is a Master Gardener and speaks regularly to many community groups and garden clubs. Her first and second additions of The Piedmont Garden Growing by the Calendar, were published by University of South Carolina Press. Her other books include: The Little Red Book of Good Manners, The Arrowood Family History, and The Welcome Baptist Church History. She also edited The Garrison Family Cook booklet. Currently she writes "My Country Garden" for the Anderson Independent Mail, and "Sunday Dinner" column for the South Carolina Baptist Courier.
