Clayton Tschudy

Clayton Tschudy is a landscape consultant working on homeowner, commercial, and civic projects. He recently served as the Development Director for Tree San Diego, and as Director of Horticulture at the Water Conservation Garden, and is a well-respected expert in California native plants and wildlife habitat gardening.


Shelagh Fritz

Shelagh Fritz is program manager of Alcatraz Gardens. Find out how you can get involved with restoring the Historic Gardens of Black Point by contacting her at sfritz@parksconservancy.org.

 


Maggie Lee

Maggie Lee is an educator and proprietor of Terra Flora – a garden design company. Whatever the style in romancing the regional, our essential aim is creating visual cohesiveness—a setting at ease with its surrounding. Through thoughtful design, thorough cultivation and a resilient, beautiful, innovative plant palette, we marry inspiration with sustainability. www.gardengaia.com


Sue Milliken and Kelly Dodson

Sue Milliken and Kelly Dodson are the owners of Far Reaches Farm, a rare plant specialty nursery in Port Townsend, Washington. Sue and Kelly are also the founders of Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy, a nonprofit organization committed to acquiring and conserving horticulturally and botanically important plants, and sharing information about their collection.


Cassy Aoyagi

Cassy Aoyagi serves as a board member of the U.S. Green Building Council’s thought-leading Los Angeles Chapter. She is an accredited designer in USGBC’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and SITEs programs and the former board president of the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants. Aoyagi is president of FormLA Landscaping where she aims to transform even L.A.’s urban spaces into vibrantly beautiful, optimally sustainable, places to connect with nature.


Tracey Byrne

BeePeeking

https://www.beepeeking.com

Tracey Byrne is a photographer and blogger with a passion for the all the small creatures that inhabit her Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary, large organic garden, and pollinator parkway. Tracey has tallied more than 30 years as an educator and she is a Seattle-based advocate for environmental stewardship, place-based education, and outdoor play: www.beepeeking.com


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.


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.