Steve SolomonTerritorial Seed Company was started by Steve Solomon. For more than 35 years, he has grown the majority of the food for his family. He is also the author of several influential gardening publications, including Growing Vegetables West of the Cascade and Gardening When it Counts. When he was about 12, he asked his father what job or career he wanted him to have when Steve grew up. At that moment he was touched. Sir Steve doesn't care if you're a doctor or an auto mechanic, he added. Experiencing what his father’s ongoing anger and resentment over this did to him and to our family, he resolved to do better. Steve Solomon supposes that’s why most of his income has been created from home. In his late twenties, Steve became a secondary school teacher, this was done out of a foolish notion that he could inspire a love of knowledge in the young by getting them to “do” history, which was something he had a passion for at that time. The students back then weren't old enough to understand history very well, thus the strategy didn't work out very well (a study that rarely should be undertaken by someone under thirty years of age). Read More Read Less