Logan Bingle

https://www.binglestudios.com.

Logan Bingle is a landscape designer in Seattle, Washington. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelors of Landscape Architecture in 2012. His passion is exploring unique places where culture and nature fuse to form superb gardens and landscapes. He documents his horticultural adventures in sketches, writing and design on his blog and as the editor for the Washington ASLA newsletter and blog. In his free time, Logan enjoys hiking, running, sketching and experimenting in his garden. www.binglestudios.com.


Leslie Bennett

Leslie Bennett and Stefani Bittner are co-founders of the San Francisco Bay Area-based edible landscape design studio, Star Apple Edible + Fine Gardening where they bring together ecologically sound landscape design principles and small-scale urban agriculture, working with both ornamental and edible plants to created integrated edible and ornamental landscapes. Their new book The Beautiful Edible Garden is available now. www.StarAppleEdibleGardens.com.


Stefani Bittner

Leslie Bennett and Stefani Bittner are co-founders of the San Francisco Bay Area-based edible landscape design studio, Star Apple Edible + Fine Gardening where they bring together ecologically sound landscape design principles and small-scale urban agriculture, working with both ornamental and edible plants to created integrated edible and ornamental landscapes. Their new book The Beautiful Edible Garden is available now. www.StarAppleEdibleGardens.com.


Neil Bell

Neil Bell is Community Horticulturist for Oregon State University Extension, oversees the Master Gardener program in Marion and Polk counties, as well as evaluates drought-tolerant shrubs for the Willamette Valley.


Virginia Hayes

Virginia Hayes is Curator of the Living Collection at Ganna Walska Lotusland in Santa Barbara, California, where she is responsible for maintaining plant records for the extensive plant collections. Virginia holds a Master’s degree from University California Santa Barbara where she did research on the unique floral characters of lotuses (Nelumbo nucifera) and their variation among wild populations. She writes a popular gardening column for the Santa Barbara Independent and contributes to other California and national publications.


Roy Stevenson

www.roy-stevenson.com

Roy Stevenson is a professional freelance travel writer and photographer based in Seattle, Washington, covering travel and culture, history and historic places, food, wine and beer, hotel and spa reviews, military history and museums, military vehicles, writing, art, 
and communications. His work has appeared in this country, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. To view more of Roy’s travel articles visit his website.


Hariana Chilstrom

Hariana Chilstrom is a writer, photographer, illustrator, educator, and naturalist who loves bugs and other invertebrates. A native of Portland, she currently lives in Seattle and works as a marine educator at the Seattle Aquarium. Hariana’s marine animal photos and weekly newsletter excerpts often appear on the Aquarium website. She is developing her own website featuring invertebrate natural history, pollinator ecology, and resources for home schools and other informal education venues.


Darrell Schramm

Darrell Schramm is a Master Gardener, a rose historian, author of Rainbow: A History of the Rose in California, and editor of two rose publications. He grows more than 250 roses in Vallejo, California.


Jennifer Jewell

Jennifer Jewell is the Creator and Host of the nationally syndicated, award-winning public radio program and podcast Cultivating Place, Conversations on Natural History & The Human Impulse to Garden. Her third book, What We Sow, on the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds, will be published by Timber Press September 19, 2023.


Ann Northrup

Ann Northrup spent her undergraduate years at the University of Michigan, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in microbiology. Her interest in plant pathology started there, but she took a five-year diversion to work in the field of medical diagnostics at Bio Rad Labs in Richmond, California, and another two years as a molecular biology research assistant at UC Irvine. Returning to plant pathology, Ann earned a master’s degree UC Berkeley. She has worked primarily in disease diagnostics of ornamental plants, first with Soil and Plant Lab in Orange, California, and then with Nurserymen’s Exchange in Half Moon Bay.

Ann currently consults privately in plant pathology and arboriculture and teaches horticulture classes at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills and Merritt College in Oakland. One of her professional pleasures is volunteering at the Sick Plant Clinic. She is also an active volunteer in the UCCE Master Gardener program for Santa Clara County. In her spare time, she enjoys playing her flute in a woodwind quintet in Saratoga and with the Saratoga Community Band conducted by her husband. And of course … she gardens.


Lorene Edwards Forkner

Lorene Edwards Forkner lives and gardens in Seattle where she pursues a good and delicious life filled with family and friends together with all things horticultural, believing that the really good part is in the blending of one’s passions.

Lorene is the author of five garden books including Hortus Miscellaneous (Sasquatch Books), Handmade Garden Projects, and The Timber Press Guide Vegetable Gardening: Pacific Northwest. Lorene is also the author of the newly released “Color In and Out of the Garden,” Abrams Books, 2022. Follow along at ahandmadegarden.com. She was the editor of Pacific Horticulture from 2012-2019.


Frederique Lavoipierre

Frederique Lavoipierre is the creator and author of “Garden Allies,” a series that ran for 10 years in Pacific Horticulture magazine. She also teaches classes and workshops on sustainable landscaping, including ecological principles, habitat gardens, beneficial insects, soil ecology, freshwater ecology, and aquatic invertebrates. Follow her on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/Garden.Allies.


Kate Frey

Kate Frey is a noted garden designer and eloquent advocate for pollinators. She designed and managed the famous organic public garden at Fetzer Vineyards, the Melissa Garden in Healdsburg, and the landscape at Lynmar Winery in Sebastopol. Her gardens won 2 gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, a rare honor for an American designer. Kate currently writes for the Press Democrat newspaper and Ten Speed Press published her book, The Bee-Friendly Garden, in 2016. Her newest educational venture, The American Garden School (www.americangardenschool.com), debuted in 2017.