You’re Invited: Book Launch Party this Weekend
Local Angelinos and SoCal gardenerds, you are invited to join me for my book launch party this weekend! Come celebrate the arrival of High Yield Small Space Organic Gardening with me.
Volunteer stinging nettles will becomes soup this week.
Pick-Your-Own Stinging Nettles
Stinging nettles volunteered at Gardenerd HQ, then we put out the call for a Pick-Your-Own party.
Come see Need To Grow and learn how to save our topsoil
Event: Need To Grow Screening & Panel
Local Angelinos can come watch a free screening of the documentary, Need To Grow. Then stay for the panel discussion with me and two other experts after the film.
Gardenerd Joins the Great Grow Along
Spring is upon us, and we're excited to be part of the Great Grow Along, a virtual garden conference taking place this March 19-21, 2021. Christy, along with 40+ other garden experts, will share her tips and tidbits for successful gardening.
Learn to make compost that jump starts your garden each season
Composting Webinar This Saturday – May 16, 2020
Learn the tricks for great composting this Saturday as Christy hosts a 1-hour quick and dirty composting webinar on Zoom.
Christy with Scott Daigre, producer of TomatoMania.
TomatoMania Classes Start Friday!
This year, Gardenerd is partnering with TomatoMania to present the Gardenerd Education Series. We've lined up great speakers who are ready to share their tomato-growing expertise.
Pomodorino del Piennolo del Vesuvio (hanging bundles of southern Italian tomatoes) on display.
Throw a Tomato Tasting Party!
I recently attended the Ocean View Farms tomato tasting celebration 2019 and ate my way through more than 70 varieties of tomatoes to help determine the best of the best.
Can you believe we have a second crop of loquats forming on the tree? Those late-summer hot days triggered fruit-set.
Wordless Wednesday – A Cranking Fall Garden
Winter is coming, but fall is still here. If there's one message this Wordless Wednesday coveys, it's that fall gardening is the best growing season in Southern California. If you're not growing in fall/winter, you're missing out! Here's what's happening in our Test Garden right now. Come see it on December 16th in person! See all this in person! Come see how much our Test Garden has grown in 2 weeks on December 16th at our first ever Gardenerd HQ…
Our test garden kicks into gear.
Gardenerd HQ Fall Test Garden Tour – Dec. 16, 2017
We hope you can join us for our first Gardenerd HQ Fall Test Garden Tour. We're grateful for mild winters because fall is the best growing season for our favorite crops. Kale, broccoli, lettuces, root veggies, potatoes, peas and more - that's what fall gardening is all about! The Gardenerd Test Garden will be open to the public on December 16, 2017 to share the beauty and splendor of fall gardening. Join us for an afternoon of garden-nerdiness. Come celebrate…
Long tables sloped up the hill. We sat listing to one side but the food more than made up for it.
Review: Outstanding in the Field
You've probably heard of them, these renowned dinners with elaborate, farm-fresh menus eaten on long-tables in the middle of a field somewhere. Outstanding in the Field (OITF) dinners are a feat of catering genius that bring people together for a cause. I was lucky to attend one at my very own Ocean View Farms last week as the sun dipped below the horizon. OITF's mission "is to re-connect diners to the land and the origins of their food, and to…