Garden Coaching Blog

Garden Coaching in Organic Gardening Magazine

 
Man, talk about lead time - 11 months.  Garden photog extraordinaire Rob Cardillo spent hours shooting my garden last April and in September I delivered the text about springtime garden-coaching and voila - it's in my hands and on the stands!  And looking good.  Here's one of Rob's cool shots that didn't make it into the mag.

And the folks in the garden coaching world are mighty grateful to Organic Gardening for the great publicity - I'm already hearing from other coaches who subscribe, and they're a happy bunch. 

Posted by Susan Harris

Garden coaching via the Associated Press

Veteran journalist Dean Fosdick, who covers nature and gardening for the Associated Press, wrote this wonderful story about garden mentors of all types.

 

Garden coaching in the Christian Science Monitor

We're on a roll!  Thanks to coaches Victoria Secunda, Jim Freeman and Genevieve Schmidt and correspondent April Austin for spreading the word.  Here's the article.

Garden coaching in Newsweek

Wow, still more media attention to garden coaching - this time in Newsweek.  And with each story, new coaches are getting listed in the Directory and hanging out their shingle, so it's all good news for our new profession.  And a big thank-you to reporter Christina Gillham for even giving the web address of our directory and other coaching resources.  (Yay)  Here's our compilation of press clippings about garden coaching, and if you know of something we've missed, leave a comment, will ya?

Posted by Susan Harris

California coach Genevieve Schmidt in the news

Congratulations to Genevieve in Arcata, CA for this nice profile in the North Coast Journal.  Writer Amy Stewart, a blogging partner of mine at GardenRant, has been an early and enthusiastic supporter of coaching and we thank her for spreading the word. 

Posted by Susan Harris.  Photo by Amy Stewart.

Coaching in Total Landscape Care

Here's the story, with quotes from Robin Haglund in Seattle and yours truly here in Maryland.

Posted by Susan Harris

Coaches in Washingtonian Magazine

Washington, D.C.'s big glossy monthly has a comprehensive feature this month about finding help in the garden and includes coaches, along with the more established professions of designers and landscape architects.  Excellent!  I was interviewed and quoted at length, as was one of my clients. Kathy Jentz, editor of Washington Gardener Magazine, was asked about the difference between a coach and a consultant.  Her answer: there's no formal distinction, but those who call themselves consultants tend to have certificates or degrees in landscape design or horticulture, while coaches are generally people who have gardened for years and developed expertise that way, as well as through research or volunteering in a community or botanical garden.  Good explanation, Kathy!

Finally, on their website I found this little gem: "Local garden coach Susan Harris links to a variety of regional gardening blogs at sustainable-gardening.com."  Ah, link love!

Posted by Susan Harris

Garden Coaching on Ch. 9 in D.C.

Here's the link to the article and to see the video of the piece, go to "click to view" on the right side of the page.

Posted by Susan Harris

Nice long interview in Examiner.Com

Thanks to Robin Wederer for asking good questions and helping to promote the work we do.  She's their national "Gardening Examiner," and here's the link.

Then Elizabeth Licata over on GardenRant posted that link and explored her owns reaction to the idea of hiring a coach. 

Posted by Susan Harris

Veg-Garden Coaching in Slate

Here's the article, which offers two options for nervous would-be veg-growers:  having someone to do the gardening FOR you, or hiring someone to teach YOU to do it.  We have a bias toward the latter, of course.  Thanks to Constance Casey for the great write-up and for linking to our directory!