Arricca Elin SanSone

Experience

Arricca Elin SanSone is a lifestyle and garden writer whose work has appeared in many national  publications including Prevention, Country Living, Veranda, Good Housekeeping, Martha Stewart Living, The Spruce, PureWow and many others. She is an experienced gardener who has crafted thousands of articles about plants, gardening and lifestyle during the past decade and a half.

Arricca earned dual undergraduate degrees summa cum laude in English and Classics from Hiram College and an MBA cum laude from Georgia Southern University. Since 2005, Arricca also has written about health, and she applies these same research skills to investigate the science of growing things. She writes about plants, as well as the mental and physical benefits of gardening, and she focuses on science-backed suggestions for healthier, more productive gardens. In 2008, she started trialing new plant cultivars and field testing new garden products to evaluate real-world practicality and durability. 

Arricca grew up in her grandparent’s garden where she learned the fine arts of deadheading, seed saving, canning vegetables, and making jams and pickles from her Gram. As a lifelong gardener, she has worked rich Midwestern loam and heavy clay and now maintains a third of an acre plot garden of edibles and ornamentals in sandy soil. Her special interests include indoor plants, growing edibles and herbs, pollinator gardens, container gardening, and old-fashioned plants including annuals, perennials, shrubs, and roses. She’s happiest when digging in the dirt and teaching people how to grow things.