I have a friend who would like to join.
How does she go about it???

Just by filling out the info to sign in. The site is free and open to all.

patsyann said:I have a friend who would like to join.
How does she go about it???

https://garden.org/users/join/

Maybe @Dave, @Trish, @Jon need to check things out because the garden.org/users/join/ link doesn't seem to be working.

I clicked on crawgarden's link and it takes me back to my own home page. I'm logged in using Firefox so I opened a new browser (Chrome), typed in www.garden.org and the main non-log in page comes up but when I copied and pasted the garden.org URL from there, the same thing happens when I preview and try the link, it takes me to my own home page.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Or is there perhaps a system glitch somewhere?

The link only works if you're not already logged in.

Learn more things here by accident than design

So, @patsyann, tell your friend to go to www.garden.org and scroll down the page to where it says:

Want to get involved?
Simply create a free username, and you can then login and enjoy the social side of the site!

When she clicks on the blue area that says create a free username, she should find the steps to set up a free account!