Yes, genetic, LOL ,and on both sides seeing my paternal grandfather was a market gardener and the first Curator of the Park in the City I was born and reared in. Born to get my hands in the dirt I was.
Family history is great if someone else does all the research. I couldn't put that book down until I'd read it from cover to cover, although it only really covered our first family to live in Australia, and a bit about conditions in the country they came from.