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Specialty Subjects : GARDENING/HOMESTEADING

• Seed starting and plant propagation—scarification, cold stratification, and other seed-starting techniques

• Growing veggies, herbs, and fruits—organic methods; integrated pest management; heirloom varieties

• Marketing and selling homegrown goods

• Greenhouse management and operation

• Composting—setting up a pile from scratch; common composting mistakes; remediating problem piles

• Beekeeping—integrated pest management; Langstroth and other hive configurations

• Keeping chickens

SPECIALTY GARDENING

• Climate change gardening—xeriscaping; rain gardens; native plantings

• Wildlife attraction—gardening for native species; migratory birds; establishing biohedges and other specialized habitats

• Invertebrate pollinator conservation—plantings for honey bees, native pollinators, and other beneficial and/or threatened insects

Book Credits : Authored, illustrated and published The Lost Soul Companion: Comfort and Constructive Advice for Black Sheep, Square Pegs, Struggling Artists, and Other Free Spirits , 1999-2000. Random House, Inc. subsequently purchased the rights to re-release The Lost Soul Companion (Dell Trade Paperback, September 2001) and its sequel, The Not-So-Lost Soul Companion: More Hope, Strength, and Strategies for Artists and Artists-at-Heart , in the fall of 2002. Authored and illustrated The Insatiable Gardener's Guide: How to Grow Anything & Everything Indoors, Year 'Round (Five Hearts Press, 2004) Authored, illustrated Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet (Perigee Books, 2009)

Enter your professional bio here : A homesteader, author, and master naturalist, Susan M. Brackney has written for Boy Scouts, stoners, radiologists, gardeners, the one percent, and many other walks of life. She's researched, written, and illustrated four nonfiction books, including Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet. She's also ghostwritten a fifth book about traumatic brain injury repair. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Boys' Life Magazine, Organic Gardening, Hobby Farms, Indianapolis Monthly, and the PBS ''NatureNow'' blog, among others. Brackney can provide the following content/editorial materials: FULL-LENGTH, SERVICE-ORIENTED FEATURES how-tos compact, front-of-the-book items quirky, first-person narrative opinion pieces NONFICTION BOOKS book proposals full-length manuscripts MULTIMEDIA CONTENT high-resolution photos original infographics accompanying video pieces podcast scripts and editing services https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/5766416-plan-bee

Writing Credits : Clients have included: Perigee Books, The New York Times, Boys' Life, Pizza Today, Country Living Gardener, Organic Gardening, Bloom Magazine, Hobby Farms Magazine, Discover, The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis Monthly Magazine, and more.

Awards and Recognition : 2017 recipient of the American Society of Journalists and Authors Honorable Mention in the Business/Technology/Science category for her article ''Are We Loving Monarchs to Death?'' appearing in Discover Magazine online. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2016/06/21/are-we-loving-monarchs-to-death

Skills (Select all that apply) : Blog posts, Books, E-books, Feature writing, Ghostwriting, Photography, Podcasts, Profiles

List any memberships you have with other organizations : Garden Communicators International; Society of Environmental Journalists