{"id":20630,"date":"2025-12-14T23:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandonspaldingstaging.com\/DirtDr\/health-and-lifestyles\/organic_advice-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:16:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:16:30","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sandonspaldingstaging.com\/DirtDr\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div class=\"x-section e20630-e1 mfx2-0 mfx2-1\"><div class=\"x-bg\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"x-bg-layer-lower-image\"><\/div><div class=\"x-bg-layer-upper-color\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e20630-e2 mfx2-4 mfx2-5 mfx2-9 mfx2-a\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e20630-e3 mfx2-e mfx2-f mfx2-g\"><div class=\"x-text x-text-headline e20630-e4 mfx2-i mfx2-j\"><div class=\"x-text-content\"><div class=\"x-text-content-text\">\n<h1 class=\"x-text-content-text-primary\">About<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-section e20630-e5 mfx2-1 mfx2-2\"><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e20630-e6 mfx2-4 mfx2-6 mfx2-7 mfx2-9 mfx2-b\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e20630-e7 mfx2-e mfx2-f\"><nav class=\"x-crumbs e20630-e8 mfx2-l\" role=\"navigation\"><ol class=\"x-crumbs-list\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BreadcrumbList\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb Navigation\"><li class=\"x-crumbs-list-item\" itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\"><a class=\"x-crumbs-current x-crumbs-link\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Thing\" itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/sandonspaldingstaging.com\/DirtDr\/\" title=\"You Are Here\"><span itemprop=\"name\"><i class=\"x-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-x-icon-s=\"&#xf015;\"><\/i><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Home<\/span><\/span><\/a><meta itemprop=\"position\" content=\"1\"><\/li><\/ol><\/nav><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-row x-container max width e20630-e9 mfx2-4 mfx2-6 mfx2-8 mfx2-9 mfx2-c\"><div class=\"x-row-inner\"><div class=\"x-col e20630-e10 mfx2-e mfx2-g mfx2-h\"><div class=\"x-text x-text-headline e20630-e11 mfx2-i mfx2-k\"><div class=\"x-text-content\"><div class=\"x-text-content-text\"><h2 class=\"x-text-content-text-primary\">About Howard<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-text x-content e20630-e12 mfx2-m\"><span>Howard Garrett has\u00a0extensive experience in landscape contracting, greenhouse growing, golf course planning and maintenance, and organic product development. 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