About the Project
Green Minds is a portrait project exploring gardeners and their passion for growing greenery. I am seeking to validate all kinds of gardening practice. This includes anything from a sprawling lush paradise to a single plant growing in a coffee can. Gardens include but are not limited to: community gardens, allotments, backyards, balconies, rooftops, front yards, containers on a patio or street corner, store windows, fire escapes, windowsills, guerilla gardens….
Define gardener? A person who grows and/or cultivates a plant or plants. The goal is to document as many types of gardens and gardeners as possible… gardener’s of all ages, nationalities, genders, and experience levels…
About Gayla Trail
- Photo of Gayla by Davin Risk.
Gardener, photographer, graphic designer, and crafty gal Gayla Trail is the creator of the acclaimed gardening web site YouGrowGirl.com and author of the popular gardening book, You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening (Simon & Schuster).Gayla launched YouGrowGirl.com in February 2000 as a personal response to a kind of gardening media she found missing. A labour of love that Gayla continues to run, the website has become a thriving community for likeminded gardeners and even self-confessed “black thumbs.” Gayla has always gardened in whatever space she had available. She now splits her gardening time between a rooftop deck, a community garden plot, and a formerly barren patch of public land on a busy urban corner.
Gayla is a regular contributor to magazines, public speaker, and spokesperson on urban gardening, ecology, and community. Her work has appeared in Organic Gardening Magazine, ReadyMade, Venus, BUST, The National Post, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Gardening Life, LA Times, Canadian House and Home, 2 Magazine, Gardening and Deck Design, Life Magazine, and more.