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 organic gardening classes in California, and offers tips on her YouTube channel worldwide. Between 50-70 percent of her family’s produce comes from her garden of less than 300 square feet. She is author of High Yield Small Space Organic Gardening (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), Garden Variety: A Novel (William Morrow) and its sequel Bolting to Seed (June 2026).
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Appearances
You can hire Christy to speak about gardening at your next event, conference, or garden party. See sample topics here. Then 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, or Lunch & Learn.
- Bolting to Seed, the sequel to Garden Variety, is also here! Order your copy here.
- Listen to this interview on The Organic Gardener Radio show with Doug Oster airing July 19, 2026. Christy talks about her new novel.
- APLD Virtual Chapter – October 22, 2026 at 2:00 P.M. PT / 5 P.M. ET. – Vegetable Garden Design for Landscape Designers.
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Contact
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