Today's Friday Favorite is a blog and web community called You Grow Girl created by Gayla Trail. She is a writer, photographer, and graphic designer with a background in the fine arts, cultural criticism, and ecology. She is the author of several books, and has been on popula radio, and television shows.
I really enjoy her website and read it every week. It is fun, entertaining, informative, and I appreciate the laid back approach to gardening as that is the way that I choose to garden myself.
The community was created in February 2000 and has grown since then. She describes it as
" ...a thriving online community that speaks to a new kind of gardener, seeking to redefine the modern world relationship to plants. This contemporary, laid-back approach to gardening places equal importance on environmentalism, style, affordability, art, and humour."
The topics she write about span from house plants to vegetable gardens and just about anything else you can think of on the topic of gardening of course. There are forums where you can write about your gardening experiences or ask questions. There is also a store which sells super cute items such as accessories, books, buttons, posters, stationary, and tee shirts.
I enjoy reading her features on specific plants, some which are common plants and other that are more rare, and I like looking at the photos in the garden show and tell section as well as reading the forums and blog posts.
Her gardens are very pretty and incorporate recyclable and reusable art in unique ways.
She is also an outspoken advocate of sustainable living, community, urban gardening, and growing food. She really focuses on urban gardening and gardening in small spaces which is helpful for those of you living in apartments or rental property where you don't have a whole lot of room to have an outdoor dug garden. She may be a little controversial for some of you readers, but it is definitely worth taking a look at her great site.
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