A wild Vermont girl who got her life together and became a successful small business owner in Maine. As a young girl growing up in a small town in southern Vermont I became very interested in our state insect, the honeybee, with Melissa meaning honeybee in Greek I felt a sincere connection to them and wanted to learn all I could about these mysterious little creatures.
The first job I ever had was on the local organic vegetable farm. Through this great job it was very easy to learn about honeybees and their importance.
When I graduated in I went on to study agriculture and self sustained living at Sterling College in northern Vermont. While I was attending Sterling College I learned very little about agriculture but I became an expert on the Burlington music scene! I had always loved music and found it important to my life, I even booked my cousins band to play at our senior prom, but this was a whole new level of passion for me. My love for agriculture was slipping and my love for music was running wild.
I started traveling with my boyfriend at the time all along the east coast. The late Winter, Spring and Summer of were spent seeing music, traveling, exploring where the wind took us. In the Fall of we found ourselves in his hometown in northeast PA needing jobs. I was hired to work at a greenhouse. The only thing job I had done up to this point was grow, harvest, and sell vegetables. I worked for this greenhouse for one morning, in the rain and I was fired!! What does that even mean?
I enrolled and started massage therapy school in the Winter of I really had no idea what I was doing when enrolling, but gave it a try. Well in this trying I ended up graduating with the highest grade in my class. In I graduated with a certification to practice massage therapy. I had found my skill in this world, only I still was not convinced of it. At this point in my life I was still very passionate about local, live music.
