Most of you know me as the Associate Producer for Growing A Greener World TV, but a few weeks ago, I got a promotion to “Co-Executive Producer“.

What does this mean?

Well loosely translated, it means that I’m Joe Lamp’l's “wing man” for producing the show.

 L-R: David Pennington, ME, Christa Hanson, Joe Lamp’l and Carl Pennington

But I have actually have already been doing THAT job for quite awhile! I now just I have the fancy title and new business cards to go with it.

But the new title change made me reflect on the last 2 years working with Joe and the awesome people who help put this show together.

It takes a village to produce a TV show!

 

Filming Joe in the edible landscape of Ros Creasy. (Obviously it was a hot day!)

Whew! What a whirlwind it has been!

We have been traveling the country telling the stories of people and places making a difference through gardening. And through that, I have met some of the most amazing people and have seen inspiring gardens.

But what truly makes this job so rewarding are the people I work with.

 

Chef Nathan Lyon (Co-Host), Christa Hanson (Social Media Director),

Carl Pennington (Director of Photography) , ME, Joe Lamp’l (Executive Director)

and David Pennington (Camera 2)

Joe and Robin Haglund (Script Writer)

Producing a Public Television show is not easy. There are long hours, grueling shoots, high stress and it seems that something always goes wrong…

Rewriting the chicken show script minutes before filming…Ahhhh!

But when you work with a group of incredibly dedicated and talented people who also keep level heads and come together as a team…it creates MAGIC.

 

Todd Brock (Advising Producer), Me and Joe on the set of “Backyard Chicken Keeping” – One of our favorite episodes to be coming up in Season Two.

Many of our episodes just seem to flow into incredible stories and each GGW team member adds their own sparkle to the overall product. The best part is that we all have each other’s back and we all pull together when the going gets tough. No egos. No power-plays.

And when we are not working extra hard? WE LAUGH!!!

And we have fun!

And we enjoy each other’s company.

 

And Joe and I would not be able to do what WE do without the help of Joe’s assistant Jordan Crossingham and my production assistant, Heather McClain. Every single person on the GGW team is a joy to work with and it is an honor to help make Joe’s vision of a “Greener World” into a reality on television.

Go Team!

{Some photos courtesy of Christa Hanson}