Hello everyone welcome back to the epic gardening

podcast and welcome back to Tanya Anderson this is our final episode with

Tanya she's the founder of Lovely Greens, a gardening blog, a

YouTube channel, she sells her own products there and also is the author of the

upcoming book A Woman's Garden, Grow Beautiful Plants, and Make make useful things and Tani I feel like we've done quite a bit

Diving into specific sections of the book, but we haven't quite yet talked about a zoomed out view. I know that you know as an

author it's there's sort of an impetus or there's a reason that a book was

written and I'm curious as to why this book and why this way, why did you organize it in such a way?

There is a real thirst for learning about useful plants right now and it is quite here and there.

So you have this massive resource of people sharing how to grow food and to grow it in different ways and for different regions and you also have

Gardeners that focus on ornamentals, which is not as useful.

But there are other things like plants that you can grow for medicine,

you can grow for skin care, that you can grow to clean the home that don't have as much

knowledge behind them there aren't as many resources to learn a bit more about

that but there is that curiosity I would say for how we can use plants in different ways within our lives to improve our lives for home health and for creativity for wellness and so the idea is I wanted to showcase

different people that are doing this themselves

that are growing plants for a particular purpose and share a little bit of their story and maybe something intriguing about their background or questions that they've asked about useful plants.

And what I also realized when I started thinking about it

and thinking about the people I wanted to feature is that all of them were

women. Women that have a very cottage garden aesthetic and that might just be arbitrary but I think

it's just this idea of collecting as many plants as possible but it's also using those

plants in creative ways and in healthy ways.

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