Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie is author and “Epicurean homesteader”, Tasha Greer.

Tasha is a writer, focused on simple, sustainable living. She gardens on about 1.5 acres of land and grows a variety of annual and perennial edibles, medicinal, and ecosystem support plants.

Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie is Patricia Buzo, creator of Doodle Bird Terrariums.

A terrarium is usually a sealable glass container that holds soil and plants, and can be opened for maintenance to access the plants inside. However, terraria can also be open to the atmosphere rather than being sealed. Terraria are often kept as decorative or ornamental items.

On today's episode of Grow! with Katie, we got to chat and hang out with the one and only J Schwanke!

Schwanke is the host, creator and producer of J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom, seen on PBS and Create TV stations nationwide. He is also the CEO of uBloom.com, the first online community for flower fans, created for both professionals and enthusiasts. J is host and producer of the web broadcast flower design show, Fun with Flowers and J, seen online at uBloom.com.

Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie is Megan Cain, founder of the Zen Succulent.

The Zen Succulent started as an Etsy shop, which is still running, and now has two store fronts and their own website where you can order kits!

Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie is adaptive gardening expert and author, Toni Gattone.

Toni has devoted her time to researching and helping those with disabilities, limitations, and folks who are getting older in age to extend their time in their garden with adaptive gardening.

This month, garden industry insiders will gather virtually for Cultivate’20, AmericanHort’s annual conference.

Katie will once again be premiering the firms widely anticipated annual Garden Trends Report and sharing what they see as the future of gardening.

Katie will present the firm’s 2021 Garden Trends Report, The Great Reset, LIVE and offer a peek into what will be trending in horticulture in 2021 and beyond on a panel, “A Retailers’ Planning Guide for 2021: You asked to be declared an essential business, now choose to be one.”

Today’s guest on our special episode of Grow! with Katie on Instagram LIVE is Leah Penniman, Co-Director and Farm Manager at Soul Fire Farm!

Soul Fire Farm is a community farmed centered around BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system.

Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie closing out Chicken Week is TV star, Brad Hauter, from Coop Dreams!

Brad started his chicken journey about 5 years ago when he got 4 chickens and now has 36!

Today on day two of Chicken Week on Grow! with Katie, we have a very special guest, Bree the Rooster! Along with Bree is his owner/companion Camille, and their animal photographer, Janet Holmes!

Bree was found on the streets of New York City wandering all alone as a chick. Camille took in the chick, not knowing what was to come! After about three weeks with Bree, Camille discovered that he was in fact a rooster. There is law against owning roosters in NYC so Camille made the big move back to her home in Ohio, to not be separated from her new feathered family member.

Today’s guest on Grow! with Katie, kicking off Chicken Week, is Lisa Steele of Fresh Eggs Daily!

Lisa has been contributing to the backyard chicken keeping community for more than a decade, sharing her unique and creative perspective on raising flocks naturally from her farm in Maine.