You Grow Girl™

Contributors

You Grow Girl has been online since February 2000. In that time many people have generously donated their time to help make this site possible. My deepest gratitude goes out to them all.

Special thanks to Davin Risk who has offered a tremendous amount of time, help, advice and support throughout the course of this project and beyond. You're a superstar.

Gayla Trail

Gardener, photographer, graphic designer, and crafty gal Gayla Trail is the creator of this web site and the author of the popular gardening book, You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening (Simon & Schuster). An urbanite, Gayla has always gardened in whatever space she had available. She now splits her gardening time between her own little urban farm on a rooftop deck, a community garden plot (farm #2), and a formerly barren patch of public land on a busy urban corner.

Gayla is a regular contributor to magazines, public speaker, and spokesperson on urban gardening, ecology, and community. Her work as a writer, photographer, and urban gardening advocate has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, ReadyMade, Venus, BUST, The National Post, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Gardening Life, LA Times, Canadian House and Home, 2 Magazine, Gardening and Deck Design, Life Magazine, and more.
Contact Gayla about interviews and writing.

Gayla is a frequent speaker and spokesperson on the topics of urban gardening, and ecology. She also gives hands-on demonstrations to audiences of all ages and has travelled across North America to speak at garden shows, environmental events, garden groups, horticultural societies, and on radio and television programs. Selected past topics and appearances include:

• Leafscapes Urban Gardening Events (New York and Chicago): Gayla worked as a spokesperson and designer, promoting urban agriculture, leading workshops, and designing edible urban gardens for public education and viewing.
• Yard, Garden, and Patio Show (Portland, Oregon): Growing Incredible Edibles Anywhere and Everywhere
• Canada Blooms: Urban Gardening, Guerilla Gardening, Pretty Delicious: Beautiful Food Gardens.
• The Stratford Garden Festival: What I Love About Gardening, Growing Edibles, Current Gardening Trends.
• Vegetable Gardening Symposium (Oregon): Gardening with Limited Resources and Challenging Spaces
• Portland, Oregon and Earth Day Toronto: Growing From Seed Workshop
• BlogHer Conference 2006 Is the Next Martha Stewart a Blogger?
• Toronto Botanical Garden: Creating a Sanctuary in the City
• GrassRoots: Urban Gardening: No Backyard Required

Contact Gayla about speaking at your event or other appearances.

Publisher

Fluffco

Fluffco is an interdisciplinary creative services company founded in 1999. We offer creative and design services to clients with individual needs while also producing and developing our own unique properties, like You Grow Girl.

What drives us, especially online, are aesthetics which foster investigation and suggest experimentation. In addition to You Grow Girl we design and develop unique products that are sold in our online store SUPERfantastico.

For more information about Fluffco please visit our site.