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Gayla Trail is a writer, photographer, and graphic designer with a background in the Fine Arts, cultural criticism, and ecology. She is the creator of the popular gardening project, You Grow Girl and the author of You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening as well as an in-demand gardening personality and spokesperson with a focus on urban gardening, growing food, sustainable living, and community. Her own line of pithy gardening products can be found at SUPERfantastico.

Gayla’s second book, Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces will be out Feb 2010 (Random House/Clarkson Potter) and is available now for pre-order!

Find out about booking Gayla as a speaker in 2010.

Check out Gayla's Micro-farming column in The Globe & Mail.

Recent Entries

O Magazine: Garden State

(March 2010) An urban farmer with a cultlike following explains the simplest way to grow your own food

Recent Television Appearances (Spring 2010)

Two recent television appearances that made it online.
The Steven and Chris Show: On growing vegetables in containers. Accompanying text can be found here.
CTV Montreal: Grow a Pocket Garden

Gardening & Botanicals

Photos of gardens, gardening, and individual plants.

Grow Great Grub: Organic Food From Small Spaces (Book)

An engaging, fun, functional guidebook that makes growing organic food easy for aspiring home farmers.

Santiago de Cuba

Santiago de Cuba and Guama (2008 & 2009)