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INSPIREHandy girl - @annikasnaturligating

HANDY GIRL - @ANNIKASNATURLIGATING

Meet Annika Christensen, photographer and gardening muse, whose camera and inspiring shots allow us to tiptoe into the garden’s four seasons and in-between times.

– I live in, with and from gardens, says Annika when asked to sum up her work.

In 2003, Annika switched from being a preschool teacher to become a garden photographer following long-term sick leave due to an inner ear injury. During her sick leave, her husband bought her a digital camera to record her seasonal garden. This aided her recovery, although she didn’t realise it at the time.
– Everyone should have a garden where they can be themselves and do as they please, whenever the mood takes them. Always having something to look forward to is such a thrill. The thing of stirring all your senses is just amazing, and the memories of the scents and savours are with you all year round”, says Annika.

 

Over the years, Annika has contributed to three gardening books, and for seven years she wrote a garden diary for a gardening magazine. In 2010, one of her pictures was used as a postage stamp. “It was a big deal then, and still is, to have designed a postage stamp”, says Annika.

Annika currently devotes her time to her business Annikas Naturliga Ting (Annika’s Natural Things), blogging on facebook under the same name and on instagram @annikasnaturligating, where she has 41,000 followers.

“The name came out of my love of all those natural little things that surround us in everyday life. It’s such a thrill to be able to tend what grows in the garden in chime with the changing seasons”, says Annika.

Annika grows all kinds of edible crops, and the family is self-subsistent from April to December. In winter she grows sprouts, shoots, and microgreens.
– I’m currently out giving talks and hosting workshops on this. They’ve been really well-attended, but I’m actually quite accomplished these days at growing all kinds of microgreens and using them in everyday dishes. Annika is confident that sprouts, shoots and microgreens are a big part of our culinary future.



Aside from gardening, Annika goes walking in the amazing forests on the Hallandsåsen ridge almost daily, where she takes a “forest dip” and breathes in the pure air.

– Although I spend so much time in the same garden and the same forest day in, day out, I’m always spotting something new,” says Annika with a smile.

Follow Annika on Instagram @annikasnaturligating and facebook at Annikas Naturliga Ting


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