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:
- Culver City Garden Club – Christy will share her passion about heirloom vegetables in-person on March 7th, 7 p.m.
- TomatoMania – Come get your tomato questions answered at Tapia Brother’s Farmstand March 24th, 2023. Christy will be on staff with advice, favorites, and books.
- Otto & Sons Nursery – Join Christy for a class on planning your spring garden. Warm & hot season crops are on the agenda. April 1, 2023 at 10 a.m.
- Heirloom Expo -September 12-14, 2023 – Join Christy at this fantastic celebration of seeds and organic edible gardening. Her Classes TBA.
- Urban Farm Garden Chat – Christy talks shop with Greg Peterson about planning your fall garden. Air date TBD.
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Contact
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