Linda Ly is the founder and creative force behind the award-winning site Garden Betty.

What began as a personal blog in 2010 is now a leading resource in the home and garden sphere, reaching over 7 million readers every year in over 230 countries.

The site celebrates the art of living slow and eating well, with original firsthand content on modern homesteading, farm-to-table cooking, and outdoor adventuring.

Garden Betty has been honored as the “Best Gardening Blog” by Country Living and a “Top 10 Gardening Blog” by Better Homes and Gardens.

Linda Ly’s expertise in edible gardening and her penchant for crushing common food myths led to her first book, The CSA Cookbook (2015), which took a unique top-to-tail approach to using vegetables.

It was followed by the bestselling The New Camp Cookbook in 2017 (named an Amazon Editors’ Choice for seven years running, Amazon’s Best Book of the Month, and PureWow’s Best Book of the Year), which then inspired a companion title, The Backyard Fire Cookbook (2019).

With the growing popularity of the zero-waste movement, Linda’s debut book was revised and republished as The No-Waste Vegetable Cookbook (2020). It helps us rethink what’s edible, be more sustainable by composting less (yes, you read that right), and use up all the plants we grow or buy. Like the veggie version of nose-to-tail, if you will.

In 2022, Linda took the “good food in the great outdoors” theme to another level with the release of her newest book, The National Parks Cookbook. Her latest project, The Route 66 Cookbook, will be published in October 2025 in celebration of the Route 66 Centennial.

Linda, her blog, and her books have been featured in dozens of top-tier publications, including Time, HGTV, and Outside magazines; Travel Channel; Food & Wine; Martha Stewart; Real Simple; The Washington Post; The Guardian; and front page of The Wall Street Journal.