Christina Chung of @fluent.garden creates educational content to make gardening accessible for a wide range of online audiences. After completing the Horticulture Technician Foundation program through The UBC Botanical Garden's Horticulture Training Program, Chris served as the program's coordinator for two years. Working as an educator, she created and taught small-scale urban food production courses. Chris's current passion for growing perennial edible plants has led her to investigate the viability of introducing thoughtfully designed food forests or "layered" plantings into residential-scale gardens in Metro Vancouver, Canada. She completed further training through Gaia College's Organic Horticulture Specialist Program.

"The Layered Edible Garden provides a next step for intrepid edible gardeners to level up--literally--their gardens, adding more texture, height, and beauty. Christina is a fantastic educator and someone I've learned a lot from personally. I can't recommend her book enough."

"Chris is a master of layering her garden with beautiful plants, wonderful textures, and of course delicious edibles. This book has great examples of grown in spaces and breakdowns of unique plants that serve multiple purposes."

"Christina is a botanist's gardener. Her sophisticated appreciation of botany and ecology allows her to introduce the diversity of natural plant communities into the vegetable garden. This book is the perfect guide to bring plant biology into your backyard!"

"Thanks to its enthusiastic, engaging narrator and vibrant color photographs, this informative book will appeal to vegetable gardeners who want to explore new methods and unexpected choices in their edible gardens."