Recreating Eden - 3x10 - Searching for the Simple Life- Followmy.tv

Since his childhood, when he spent time growing vegetables in his backyard, Philippe Levesque has had a passion and respect for nature that quickly turned into successful business ventures and world-traveling. Accumulating more experience before the age of 30 than most gardeners do in a lifetime, at age 17 Philippe quit university and moved to London, England to work for a garden shop where his talent and charm attracted many of the city’s rich and famous to hire him as their private gardener. By the time he was 20, he returned to Canada to pursue his dream of opening his own nursery and founded Macrophylla, an environmentally sustainable nursery in Dundee, New Brunswick that uses only biodegradable materials to produce ornamental plants. The nursery was a huge success and transformed the community with a new environmental consciousness, but left Philippe with a sense of longing to simplify his life. In October of 2005, his search for the simple life has taken him back to England with a renewed sense of purpose and only time will tell where his next adventure will take him…