Gayla Trail is one of a growing breed: the city dwelling food gardener. A Parkdalian, and creator of the wildly popular urban-gardening website YouGrowGirl.com , she has learned to take any adversity the mean streets throw at her and roll with it.
She has three gardens: one near a bar where she won't grow food; but the others-one on the roof of her building, the other a community plot tucked behind a downtown beer store-have been producing plentiful harvests for a decade.
Ms. Trail, who was an aspiring scientist before leaving her hometown of St. Catharines to do a fine arts degree at York University, put in a few years as a graphic designer before launching her website in 2000. Now, she is a guru for urban gardeners not only in Toronto but also in the United States. She is big in Brooklyn and the U. K. In 2005, her first book You Grow Girl was published; next year Clarkson Potter is publishing her second book, on the topic of urban food gardening, and not a moment too soon.
Trail is an inspiration of what can be done with a simple idea.
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