Niki Jabbour is a year-round vegetable gardener and the award-winning author of four gardening books. Niki is an in-demand speaker, offering seminars and keynotes at events, shows, societies, and botanic gardens across North America, including the Northwest Flower & Garden Show, The Dow Gardens, The Philadelphia Flower Show, The Boston Flower Show, and Canada Blooms. She lives and gardens in Nova Scotia, Canada (hardiness zone 6a).
- For decades, Niki has contributed articles to magazines such as Fine Gardening, Horticulture, and Birds & Blooms.
- Niki hosted and executive produced her popular radio show, The Weekend Gardener on News 95.7 FM in Halifax for 15 years. She is currently the garden expert for the radio show CBC Maritime Noon. For her broadcasting work, Niki won the Gold Award from GardenComm as ‘Best On-Air Talent’.
Niki’s books include the best-selling The Year Round Vegetable Gardener (winner of the 2012 American Horticultural Society Book Award), Groundbreaking Food Gardens: 73 Plans That Will Change the Way You Grow Your Garden, Veggie Garden Remix: 224 New Plants to Shake Up Your Garden and Add Variety, Flavor, and Fun (winner of the 2019 American Horticultural Society Book Award, Winner of the Gold Book Award from GardenComm, and winner of the 2019 Silver Award from Taste Canada), and Growing Under Cover: Techniques for a More Productive, Weather-Resistant, Pest-Free Vegetable Garden.
When she’s not writing, speaking, or broadcasting about food gardening, Niki is harvesting year-round from her thirty raised bed vegetable garden in Halifax, Nova Scotia which is filled with an eclectic mixture of popular vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers, and beans, as well as unique heirloom varieties, and crops from around the world like cucamelons, snake gourds, and za’atar.
Find all of Niki’s articles here.
Learn how to garden year-round with Niki’s online course, How to Build and Use Mini Hoop Tunnels.
Follow Niki on:
- Instagram: @nikijabbour
- Facebook: @nikijabbour
- Bluesky: @nikijabbour.bsky.social
