Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts from a Gardening Life

Michel, Carol J.: - Carol Michel is a lifelong gardener and resident of Indiana with a bachelor's degree in horticulture production and an associate degree in computer technology, both from Purdue University. She spent over three decades working in healthcare IT while making a life for herself in her garden. Now Carol calls herself a gardenangelist and spends most of her time in her garden, sharing all things gardening with anyone who will listen. She is an avid collector of old gardening books and claims to have the largest hoe collection in the world. Carol writes about her old books, hoes, and many other gardening-related topics for Indiana Gardening magazine and her award-winning garden blog, www.maydreamsgardens.com. She is also the author of Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life (Gardenangelist Books, 2017), winner of the GWA Gold Media Award in 2018 and Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life.