Christy Wilhelmi empowers people to grow their own food, to be more self-reliant, and to reduce pollution and waste, one garden at a time.
Christy is founder of Gardenerd, the ultimate resource for garden nerds, where she publishes newsletters, her popular blog, and top-ranked podcasts. She also specializes in small-space, organic vegetable garden design and consulting. She holds regular organic gardening classes in California, and offers tips on her YouTube channel worldwide. Between 70-80 percent of her family’s produce comes from her garden of less than 300 square feet. She is author of Gardening for Geeks (Fox Chapel Publishing), 400+ Tips for Organic Gardening Success: A Decade of Tricks, Tools, Recipes, and Resources from Gardenerd.com (Amazon Digital), Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden (Cool Springs Press) and Garden Variety: A Novel (William Morrow).
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Appearances
You can hire Christy to speak about gardening at your next event, conference, or garden party. Use the Contact Christy form to get started. Upcoming appearances include:
- High-Yield, Small-Space Organic Gardening is here! Book Christy now for your keynote speaker, garden club, Earth Day event, or Lunch & Learn.
- Honeylove Symposium – April 27, 2025 at 10 a.m. Join Christy for a Zoom class about growing a pollinator garden for the bees in your life. Hosted by Honeylove.org.
- Book Club in the Garden – Merrihew’s Sunset Garden, Santa Monica, CA has chosen Garden Variety as the book of the month. Come discuss it with the author at 6 p.m. on April 28, 2025.
- Village Well Bookstore – Sunday, October 5, 2025 at 5 p.m. – Get ready for fall planting at this evening with Christy. Bring your burning gardening questions and get autographed copies of High Yield Small Space Organic Gardening.
- Culver City Garden Club – Oct. 7, 2025 at 7 p.m. Get ready for fall gardening. Christy shares tips and tidbits from her new book for high yields this fall.
- Southern California Horticultural Society – November 13, 2025 at 7 p.m. – Join Christy at Friendship Auditorium for a fun chat about small-space organic vegetable gardening. Books available for sale at the talk.
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