Lauren Landers is a writer and horticulture enthusiast with a passion for sustainability , pollinator , and organic horticulture . After graduate from college , Lauren extend a small 2 - acre constitutional farm for 3 years , before dedicate herself to writing full - fourth dimension . With over 10 years of professional composition experience , Lauren hop to root on others to garden more , grow their own organic solid food , and make pollinator favorable outdoor spaces .

Highlights• Master Gardener Volunteer , University of Maine• Lauren runs Zero Waste Homestead , a blog dedicated to gardening , homesteading , DIY , green nursing home and conscious living.• With over 10 geezerhood of professional writing and editing experience , Lauren has been release by other gardening and eco - favorable publication , admit Gardening.org and BookScouter.com.• Areas of expertise include constitutional and pollinator gardening , native plants , compost , sustainable practice , veggie and herb horticulture , medicinal plants , get up bed and humble space horticulture , weedless gardening and landscape intent .

Experience

A nature enthusiast and garden lover , Lauren is dedicated to sustainable living and constituent gardening . With hand - on experience running a small organic farm , Lauren has proceed her education by pursuing the Master Gardener Volunteer Training at the University of Maine . Lauren is a full - time writer and her employment has appear on a act of beekeeping , sustainability , homesteading and horticulture websites . She is also the possessor of Zero Waste Homestead , a blog focused on conscious living and organic gardening . A life - retentive nurseryman , Lauren has recently been focusing her attention on the bring around powers of gardening and food security . She also strives to promote backyard gardeners to make pollinator habitats and eco - friendly outside spaces .

Education

Lauren meditate English and history at Endicott College and fine-tune Summa Cum Laude . She also incur the Senior Thesis Award for her exploration into folklore and literary report . After displace to Maine , she enrolled in the Master Gardener Volunteer political platform at the University of Maine .

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