The Weekly Dirt with Jessica Damiano
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WHO AM I, ANYWAY?
I'm a gardening coach, speaker, author, Cornell University Cooperative Extension-trained master gardener and multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years’ experience offering expert planting, growing and troubleshooting advice — first to home gardeners in my nationally syndicated Newsday Garden Detective column and currently as internationally published gardening columnist for the Associated Press.
I also coach gardeners and write this newsletter, which is a Substack Bestseller and has been awarded in the Best Newsletter category in the 2021, 2022 and 2024 PCLI Society of Professional Journalists annual Media Awards, and in the 2021, 2022 and 2024 GardenComm International Laurel Awards.
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