Home Garden Joy is a gardening website to help people who kill plastic plants learn how to grow delicious, organic food: fruit, vegetables, and herbs. We also include recipes, so you can cook what you grow, and information on preserving vegetables. And, because we believe that gardening is both a healthy activity and can support good health, we feature herb gardening, herbal medicine, and garden-related health and wellness articles.
Jeanne Grunert, Writer, Content Marketer
Jeanne Grunert is the founder of Home Garden Joy. She is an award-winning writer and content marketer who has been an avid gardener for over 30 years. As the former marketing manager for Martin Viette Nurseries in Long Island, she talked to newcomers to gardening all the time and understands the challenges they face sorting through all the great information available to help them start a garden. Jeanne is a certified master gardener and was the former “Ask the Expert” columnist for Virginia Gardener magazine. Her articles on growing fruit, vegetables, and herbs have appeared in Virginia Gardener, The Herb Quarterly (now Mother Earth News), and the American Horticulture Society’s “Plant Chat”.
Advertise with Home Garden Joy
Advertising Opportunities: We accept advertisers and provide run of site banner ads in the sidebar. The cost is $50 per month with a minimum 6-month commitment. We only consider ads for gardening-related products and services.
We do not accept under any circumstances ads for cannabis products or information.
We do not provide backlinks or offer sponsored articles for any price. We reserve the right to refuse any advertiser whose values do not align with our own or who does not offer products or services that our readers would like.
Product Reviews: We welcome the opportunity to provide our readers with honest reviews of gardening products. The cost is $50 per review and you must send us the actual product to review.
If you are interested in advertising opportunities, please contact jeanne@homegardenjoy.com
Jeanne’s Story – How Home Garden Joy Began
In 2007, I did what my family and friends said was crazy. I quit my high profile (and incredibly stressful) job as a marketing director for a major New York City publisher. We sold our house, packed up our belongings, and built a home on a heavily wooded property in central Virginia. My father-in-law moved in with us. I began freelancing and consulting. We slowly grew a life instead of just making a living.
Home Garden Joy began in 2007 as the Seven Oaks blog. Seven Oaks is the name of our farm. In 2014, I moved the blog and renamed it Home Garden Joy to express how much I love gardening and homemaking. I completed my master gardener certification, and began teaching local workshops on gardening and herbalism. I’m a self taught herbalist and only provide herbal medicine for my own family (I do not offer consultations – sorry!) but I founded the Christian Herbalists group on Facebook because I sensed a need for community among Christians who also wanted to learn about natural health.
Home Garden Joy is a lifetime project. My full time job is running Seven Oaks Consulting, a content marketing and writing business. We provide website writing, article and blog writing, and sales and marketing collateral writing, along with content and direct marketing consulting, to businesses worldwide.
