Sally Cunningham is a professional author, columnist, speaker and TV personality.
Published work
Buffalo Style Gardens, Create a Quirky, One-of-a-Kind Private Garden with Eye-Catching Designs (St. Lynn’s Press, 2019) with co-author Jim Charlier, is about the phenomenon of a gardening culture that has burst out of Buffalo, boosting tourism and changing Buffalo’s image.
Great Garden Companions (Rodale Books, 1998 to present) has sold more than 70,000 copies, was translated and sells in Korea, and is expected to be released in another country soon. The book teaches organic, nature-friendly gardening (companion planting of vegetables, flowers, and herbs together) with a focus on beneficial insects and compost. (Available through Penguin Books and found at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and area bookstores.)
Sally has been published continually since 1993, contributing to at least fourteen Rodale Books and Yankee Publications, including The Encylopedia of Organic Gardening, Projects for a Birder’s Garden, and Gardening with Perennials.
She has been a columnist for The Buffalo News since 2003, and is a featured writer for Buffalo Spree Magazine.
Her Sunday TV spots (twenty-three years!) on WIVB-TV, Channel 4, reached audiences in Canada, Pennsylvania, and Western New York State, making her a popular celebrity.
Life Experience
Originally trained as a teacher and actress, Sally is an entertaining and dynamic public speaker.
She is a Master Gardener, former Cornell Cooperative Extension agent, and garden design consultant.
She has been honored as Person of the Year by PlantWNY (Landscape/Nursery Association of Western New York) and received the New York State CNLP (Certified Nursery and Landscape Professional) of the Year award.
She co-founded the National Buffalo Garden Festival (now Gardens Buffalo Niagara).
She has lived in Spain, New York City, and now resides in rural East Aurora, just outside Buffalo, NY.
Sally leads tours for Horizon Club Tours of AAA, sharing gardens, art, and history of the Eastern U.S. and European countries.
She received an M.A. in Humanities from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Sally’s present commitment is to women’s fiction writing, returning to her passion for world literature.