Garden Coach Susan Harris in the News
Coaching-Related
"CBS Sunday Morning," July 28, 2007. Here's the video clip. And here's my story about the story. (Photo right with Rita Braver, her crew, and my coaching client.)- New York Times, June 15, 2007. Here's the link to the story and here's my story about the story.
- In the "TIps" column of Newsweek is this short-but-sweet plug by Christina Gillham.
- Agence France-Presse, (an international wire service), July 14, 2007. Here's the link to the story in English. And here's my story about the client in the story, called "The Making of a Gardener."
- Slate's garden writer Constance Casey tackles garden coaching for would-be vegetable-growers.
Detroit Free Press, August 3, 2007. Here's the story. which was picked up by newsletters all over the U.S., including in the Atlanta Constitution and Charlotte Observer.- In-studio interview by Sally Cunningham on "Green Space,"
WKBW Radio in Western New York, July 29, 2007.
- Interview (about coaching and everything else) on Mouse & Trowel.
- Open Register's call to nurseries to offer garden coaching services.
- Garden Coaches in the Washington Examiner newspaper [pdf]
- On the NewsTalk 870 KRLA in Los Angeles, garden coach Shirley Bovshov plugged garden coaching and even mentioned the Worldwide Directory of Gardening Coaches — thanks, Shirley!
- Associated Press reporter Dean Fosdick wrote this wonderful article about coaches or mentors, and it turned up all over the place.
- Amy Stewart wrote this nice piece for the North Coast Journal about coaches, especially Genevieve Schmidt in Arcata, California and her old GardenRant partner, yours truly.
Terrific article by April Austin in the Christian Science Monitor.- Total Landscape Care's article about coaches mentions several of us, PLUS our blog and Worldwide Directory.
- The May 2008 issue of Washingtonian Magazine includes coaches in their survey of gardening professionals. Interviews with several coaches and even a coaching client help round out the story, as does this nice link on their website.
- WUSA, the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C., did a nice long piece about "Garden Coach Susan Harris" and it's terrific! Here's the transcript of the piece and to see the video, click to watch on the right side of the page. (And here it is on YouTube.) Photo right.
- There's a nice long interview of yours truly by Robin Wederer at Examiner.com.
- Atlanta's Radio Sandy Springs interviewed coach Steve Guiness and they chatted about this very website and our directory.
Washington Home and Garden Magazine carried a this coaching story by writer/coach Helen Yoest in Raleigh, NC.- Coming in 2009 is a feature about my coaching work in Organic Gardening Magazine written by me and photographed by Rob Cardillo. Links to my blog and this website have been promised. Possible cover.
Other Coverage
- In June of 2007 I was named Best Well-Rounded Gardenblogger by the Houston Chronicle.
Praise for GardenRant, which I co-founded and write with three others, in the Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, USA Weekend, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Philly Burbs, the Houston Chronicle, and the Dallas Morning News.- Ken Druse and his sidekick Vicki Johnson of Real Dirt Radio interviewed me about Sustainable Gardenng and GardenRant in this 12/20/08 episode.
- Bob Hill and Jeneen Wiche of the NPR show Home Grown interviewed me about GardenRant and blogging on this episode from December of 2008.
- Joe Lamp'l interviewed me at length about GardenRant and gardenblogging for his show "Growing a Greener World."
- The Washington City Paper quoted my stories about the demonstration organic lawn on the National Mall.
- I was featured in this Baltimore Sun article about garden bloggers, November 11, 2008.
- Feature about GardenRant and two other blogs: the 11/12/2007 American Gardener (pdf).
- My article "Me and My Landscape Architect" was published in the January 2007 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine.
- Interviewed and quoted in the May 2008 issue of Total Landscape Care.
- Quoted in this 5/15/08 Washington Post story about Bradford pears.
- This website was recommended on NewsTalk 870 KRLA in Los Angeles. Here's the link.
- NPR's gardening reporter Ketzel Levine covered my front yard transformation.
- My guest article "Gardeners' Wish List for Garden Centers" appeared on Open Register, an online publication of the garden retail community.
- GardenRant won GardenBlog of the Year, Best Writing, and Most Innovative. (See Mouse & Trowel Awards 2007.) In 2008 we won the Mouse and Trowel Award for Best Writing.
- In July of 2007 I was named "Top Garden Blogger to Watch" by an Australian gardening site.
- The Renegade Gardener in Minnesota named me his Top Pick of the Month and wrote: "Susan has hammered out quite a career and following, both as a garden writer and garden coach." It's among the 2008 entries on his "Top Pick" page .
- Interview by Stuart Robinson of Gardening Tips 'n' Ideas: "The Queen of GardenRant Susan Harris."
- Quoted in a Chow.com article about front-yard vegetable gardens.
- Guest author at Green Parent: "Kids and Gardening".
- My guest post on Eco-Chick is called "Why Gardening MATTERS".
In Person
- I teach gardening to the public at seminars at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
- In June of 2008 I spoke to DC's EcoWomen (over 1,000 members) about gardening, my websites and blogs, and coaching.
- In September of 2008 I spoke to Garden Writers Association national convention in Portland, Oregon about my blogs and websites. Over 600 editors, publishers and writers attended the conference.
Susan is also blogging at GardenRant.