Services – Speaking

Christy is an enthusiastic garden speaker, teacher, and heirloom evangelist. She is available to wax rhapsodic about organic gardening on a number of topics at your garden club, next conference,…

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Services – Consulting

Need some consulting or one-on-one coaching on your next gardening project? Hand-holding upon request. The Gardenerd will make a house call and help sort out your garden with you. Whether…

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Gardenerd Services

We offer a range of services to help you grow your garden, including... Online Courses Step-by-Step Start Learning Now Food Garden Design from concept to execution Learn more Consulting for…

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Welcome to Gardenerd The ultimate organic gardening resourcefor garden nerds   Are you obsessed with organic gardening, have a thirst for knowledge and a healthy sense of humor? Whether you’re…

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New Edible Landscape for a Cottage

Back in November, I got a call from a woman who wanted to turn her front and back yard into an edible landscape. She had seen me on Food For
Thought with Claire Thomas, and felt instinctively that Gardenerd was the right hire for the job.

We worked together to come up with ideas: moving existing baby fruit trees to permanent homes in the front yard, adding a vegetable garden and more fruit trees in the backyard. She …

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Gardenerd Blog: Liebster Awards

The Gardenerd Blog recently received a Liebster Award from friend and Grow BioIntensive educator, Dan Royer-Miller. What’s a Liebster
award?  It’s basically the equivalent of Follow Friday on Twitter, where you give a plug to your five favorite blogs and bestow them with this logo:

In return I am paying it forward to four other blogs (and one back to Dan) by giving a Liebster Award to the following blogs I love:

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Hey Gardenerd, Fancify My Garden

October was a busy month for garden design, as Southern California gardeners became excited about fall gardening. Our most recent project already had an existing vegetable bed, but the homeowner
wanted more space to grow, and less grass to mow. We took it from there.

The existing garden bed was infiltrated with devil’s grass, crawling its way up through 18 inches of fecund soil. Crabgrass surrounded two young fruit trees, potentially hampering future growth. The
homeowner wanted berries and had an ideal location along a neighboring garage wall.

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