DC Urban Gardeners

About DC Urban Gardeners and this Website

DC Urban Gardeners is a network of people in the Washington, D.C. area committed to locally grown food and the promotion of eco-friendly gardening practices.

On this combination website and blog you'll find:

• Blog stories about events, cool people and anything that strikes our fancy.  Guest bloggers are welcome.  "Categories" in the right column means categories of blog stories.
• "Our Articles" provide answers to the most commonly asked questions (the top question being "Will my compost pile attract rats?") and other pooled wisdom from the group.
• Links to local green groups, plant sources, garden blogs and lots more.

TO CONTACT US:

• Join our Yahoo group and post an email to the group.  The link to join is in the right column.
• Or email our webmaster: Susan@Sustainable-Gardening.com.

About the Bloggers

• Susan Harris is a founding member of DC Urban Gardeners. She writes a gardening column called "The Gardening Coach" in two Maryland newspapers and, with her three partners, the award-winning team blog GardenRant. Her services as a Gardening Coach have been featured in the New York Times and on "CBS Sunday Morning."  Susan also co-founded Regional Garden Gurus, dedicated to promoting good regional gardening education online. Visit her website Sustainable Gardening (chockful of information about environmentally friendly gardening practices) and its companion blog, Sustainable Gardening Blog. She was certified as a DC Master Gardener in 2006.

• Ed Bruske also co-founded DC Urban Gardeners.  He's an award-winning reporter for The Washington Post in a previous life and now a personal chef, caterer and occasional food writer. He lives about a mile from the White House and is in the process of turning his front yard into an edible landscape. Last year, he planned and oversaw the construction of a 1,600-square-foot container garden on a patch of asphalt adjacent to his daughter's charter school, where he helps teach an after-school program about gardening and nutrition. Ed also teaches "food appreciation" part-time to children at a private school in Northwest DC. Ed is committed to a clean environment, sustainable agriculture and political freedom for the residents of the District of Columbia.  He's also a certified Master Gardener.  Visit  his blogs The Slow Cook and Studio City Garden.

• Lara, Kat and Liz, the Garden Cyclers.

• Christa Carignan has her own very popular blog, Calendula and Concrete, which was nominated for a 2007 Mouse&Trowel Award for best photography.

• Bridge Murray Law of The City Gardener.

• DC Master Gardener and professional gardener Candy Kessel.

• You?  We need more regular and guest bloggers to cover DC's gardening and environmental projects and issues.