Sandie Lemke

Sandie Lemke became a SFEMG Master Gardner in 2019. 

Sandie moved to Pecos from Houston Texas with her husband David in 2016. In over thirty years in Houston, Sandie spent her professional life working with new mothers and babies as a nurse and as the owner of a mother-and-baby retail store.

Since her arrival to northern New Mexico, Sandie has been busy with various activities – volunteer and retail.  Sandie worked as the barn manager for two years at the New Mexico Center for Therapeutic Riding.  She volunteered at the Upper Pecos Watershed Association as the office administrator, grant administrator, and fundraiser for three major events.  In 2020, Sandie helped with the Garden Fair setup and checkout. During Spring and Summer of 2021, Sandie worked at Waterwise Gardening during their plant sales.

Sandie and David live on the Pecos River at the edge of the Village.  Outdoors is where she prefers passing her time: hiking, fly fishing and spending time keeping the wild from taking over by expertly managing pocket gophers, tending flower and cactus gardens, composting, worm farming, and managing two, soon to be three, top bar bee hives.