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What IS The Sustainable Gardening Library? Our Featured Garden (Part 4 of 5)

July 30, 2019

Enjoy a virtual tour of one of our collaborator’s gardens Why use the Sustainable Gardening Library’s Featured Garden App? Most public gardens can’t be thoroughly explored or appreciated in a single day. You can use our virtual tour to map out your visit before you leave home, or use it while you’re there to prioritize which features you want to see first. Or, just take a virtual tour of one of our finest gardens from your easy chair on a rainy afternoon. The Sustainable Gardening Library is device-responsive, meaning that the software detects what platform you’re using to access it and renders the library in the format that is most appropriate for your device (desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone). These directions are for accessing our Library via desktop, laptop, or tablet. What Is the Sustainable Gardening Library Featured Garden? This section of the Sustainable Gardening Library provides a virtual tour of one of our collaborating institutions’ gardens. The Featur...

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About Me

WELCOME. As Executive Director of the Sustainable Gardening Institute and SGI's Sustainable Gardening Library, I'm focused on helping you change the way you garden or farm, because our survival depends on it.

I enjoyed visiting other people's gardens as a field editor and location scout for Better Homes and Gardens and Country Gardens magazines; blogging on Garden Views and The Christian Science Monitor; speaking at garden clubs, libraries, environmental organizations, national and international conferences, and working in my own garden.

I served on my local environmental commission for nine years, on the planning board, and on the open space committee. I chaired the Garden Writers Association (now GardenComm International) Sustainability Committee and am a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Presidential Award for nearly a decade of service in environmental advocacy. I’m honored to have also received Garden Comm's Green Medal for Sustainability, the New Jersey SBDC’s Small Business Success Award and the NJAWBO Publications Award.

Come with me now on a journey that explores the world through our mutual love of plants. Build a holistic bond with your land and Planet Earth, while creating a stress-free sanctuary for your soul.