Heather Andrews

Heather Andrews is a published author, photographer, traveler and professional speaker who routinely works with homeowners and businesses to create sustainable native pollinator habitats. She grew up as one of 12 grandchildren in North Carolina, and often took walks on her Granddaddy Andrews acre garden, where she learned about pollinators and increasing yield. Her childhood chores included weed pulling in her Daddys rose garden, which she did not appreciate at the time.

During the growing season, you will find her in her monarch waystation, Cat-a-pillar Haven, videoblogging her garden on her Facebook page, The Thoughtful Gardener. She encourages gardeners provide wildlife habitat and fuel for native pollinators and improve vegetable yield via pollinator hedgerows/corridors. She combines information from her previous career in clinical research to guide her messaging, and routinely creates actionable video content to enable gardeners to create a pollinator paradise in their own backyard. She often sends milkweed seeds to gardeners throughout North America to help create host plants for the endangered monarch butterfly. During pandemic gardening became the # 1 hobby, and she sent over 30 packages of various seeds to gardeners who could not find supply, since garden stores both locally and on the internet were sold out.
Her garden was recently awarded the “Garden of Distinction” in 2020 by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and her nature and her photographs and articles have been featured in magazines and on Medium. Her proposal “The resurgence of pollinator hedgerows-using science to create a pollinator oasis in your own backyard” was accepted at the 2021 International Master Gardeners Conference.
To follow her educational videologs, she can be found on her new educational gardening channel on youtube, GardenThoughtfully.

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