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Robin Haglund

Robin Haglund lives in Washington state, GardenComm Region 6. A blogger, content creator, speaker, educator, and writer, she has created gardening courses and works as a garden coach and garden designer.

Her focus is helping struggling gardeners achieve specific, individualized skills and knowledge "so they can find success and joy in their gardening lifestyles and in a garden they love."

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Robin's latest garden-focused content is the Garden Mentors Academy. She developed this program based on her decades of hand-in-hand garden consulting work. She has filled the academy with easy-to-understand lessons that most struggling gardeners need. The coursework is available as gardeners need them and in multiple media formats that subscribers can revisit time and again.

Herbal Happy Hour is Robin's online garden-to-bar class. It includes lessons in growing great plants for happy hour and making delicious, unique back-bar ingredients. Students/gardeners learn to craft an array of delicious mocktails and cocktails and access free recipes on the site just by signing up!

Robin has been an on-and-off GardenComm member for years and is still deciding how to best leverage what it has to offer. She says that through GardenComm, she has met and networked with some fantastic cohorts. She hopes that programs like Power Circles will help her grow going forward.

Robin had some difficulty when asked to choose a person, a plant, or a particularly inspirational project! "I can't seem to choose between the mighty cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) and Fred Pearce (author of The New Wild: Why Invasive Species will be Nature's Salvation). So, she chose both.

She chose the indigenous cottonwood for all it gives: high nesting branches for bald eagles, propolis for bees, fragrant healing resins for my herbal infusions, and more.

And author Fred Pearce goes deep into research that informs arguments for and against what we perceive as native or non-native. She says, "His work reminds me to challenge assumptions and help my students do the same."