Today’s guest on Grow! With Katie is an incredible woman who is a self-proclaimed horticulturist extraordinaire that is half country bumpkin, half bougie, occasionally extra, and inherently Southern. It’s Abre Lee!

Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie is Farmer Nick! He is a “plantrepreneur”, based in New York, who is passionate about all things green. 

Nick’s mission is to make the world more sustainable by giving people the knowledge and confidence they need to create their own green spaces.

Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie is a backyard organic gardener from Southern California who is thriving on her multiple social media platforms and influencing millions of gardeners and people around the world. It’s CaliKim!

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic many businesses have been forced to close their doors. Essential businesses are still up and running, including many garden nurseries and plant farms. This is great news with people are finding the time to tackle garden and yard tasks they’ve been putting off and growing fruits, vegetables and herbs has become the new norm for many families. Due to limited travel and stay-at-home orders, people are limited to the resources of local businesses and online delivery services.

Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie is one of today’s top influencers; an American fashion model, environmental activist, entrepreneur and she is known as the world’s first “eco-model”, Summer Rayne Oakes!

Today on Grow! With Katie, we got to catch up with our own Peggy Anne and her husband, Dan Benarcik. This dynamic gardening duo knows their stuff and loves to share their passion with each other and others!

Today on Grow! With Katie, we got to *virtually* hang out with our bestie and best-selling author and speaker, Brie Arthur (shhh, it’s her birthday!).

Brie’s first book, The Foodscape Revolution, laid the groundwork for realizing the full potential that every landscape offers, planting with purpose to grow fruits and veggies alongside traditional plantings.  What a perfect topic for right now! 

Today on Grow! With Katie, we had the pleasure of welcoming Maria Failla!  Maria is a self-proclaimed "Plant Killer turned Plant Lady" on a mission to help every person successfully care for houseplants- no matter how small their home is.

Today’s guest on Grow! With Katie is Doug Tallamy, a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. 

He has authored eighty research articles and has taught Insect Taxonomy, Behavioral Ecology, Humans and Nature, and other courses for thirty-two years.

Tallamy devotes his time to research so he can better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities. 

He also wrote a handful of books; Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard, The Living Landscape, and Bringing Home Nature: How you can sustain wildlife with native plants. All of these can be found at http://www.bringingnaturehome.net/.

The first guest on Grow! with Katie is Joe Lamp’l, the famous “Joe” behind the gardening-intensive website, JoeGardener.com. 

Katie and Joe talk about his love for gardening, which came from a young age when he had a run-in with his parents’ favorite shrub. He shoved the broken branch into the ground and a few weeks later, the branch had taken root, and so did his interest for horticulture.