Marjory Wildcraft

Secrets To Growing Your Own Chocolate

Marjory Wildcraft is the founder of The Grow Network, which is a community of people focused on modern self-sufficient living. She has been featured by National Geographic as an expert in off-grid living, she hosted the Mother Earth News Online Homesteading Summit, and she is listed in Who’s Who in America for having inspired hundreds of thousands of backyard gardens.

Marjory was the focus of an article that won Reuter’s Food Sustainability Media Award, and she recently authored The Grow System: The Essential Guide to Modern Self-Sufficient Living—From Growing Food to Making Medicine.

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Crystal Meserole

Beneficials for Your Soil

Crystal owns and operates a one-woman wholesale commercial living microgreen operation in the mountains of western North Carolina. After working and managing local restaurants for over a decade, she saw the need for chefs to have access to more affordable, organic food for the delicious creations that they craft for our communities.

“After ten years of gardening fails, I began to think that maybe being a grower just wasn’t right for me. Then I found Grow Your Own Vegetables. My failures transformed into a successful small farm operation within months. So when the opportunity arrived to work for Grow Your Own Vegetables and help others transform their failures into opportunities for success and abundance, it was an emphatic YES! There’s nothing more rewarding than helping others reach their fresh food and wellness goals.”

Crystal is currently the Content Director for Grow Your Own Vegetables and runs their garden membership Harvest Club, helping growers all over the world get more fresh food with less effort. She hopes to stand as a clear example to anyone who thinks they can’t grow: You can. Anyone can. With the right system, mindsets, and mentor, everything becomes possible.

Greg Peterson

Seed Saving Hacks and Wild Seeds

What if there was a garden and fruit tree in every yard? This is a question that Greg Peterson ponders every day. For over 32 years, he created one of Phoenix's first environmental showcase homes for urban farming. The 1/4-acre yard featured a primarily edible landscape with over 80 fruit trees, rainwater and greywater harvesting, solar applications, and extensive use of reclaimed and recycled building materials. In 2003, UrbanFarm.org was created as an online portal for urban farming education. Then in 2015, Greg created the UrbanFarmPodcast.com that in just 6 years has released over 750 episodes, amassing over 4 million listens to date. Bill McDorman got his start in the bio-regional seed movement. While in college in 1979, he helped start Garden City Seeds. In 1984, Bill started Seeds Trust/High Altitude Gardens, a mail-order seed company that he ran successfully until it sold in 2013. He authored the book Basic Seed Saving in 1994. In 2010, he and his wife Belle Starr created Seed School, a nationally recognized week-long training. He served as Executive Director of Native Seeds Search from 2011 to 2014. Bill is a passionate and knowledgeable presenter, who inspires his audiences to learn to save their own seeds.

Jason Matyas

Gardening & Homesteading with Children

Jason Matyas is a husband, father of seven, homesteader, lifelong gardener, 20-year Air Force veteran with 9 worldwide deployments including two tours in Afghanistan, and visionary entrepreneur and public speaker. He is the founder of a family business with his children called Seeds for Generations that provides heirloom garden seeds and inspiration for gardening as a family. Jason is also the Executive Producer of the documentary film Beyond Off Grid, and founder of the Return to the Old Paths project devoted to inspiring and equipping you to reduce your dependence on the modern economy and seek true freedom by Returning to the Old Paths of productive households and local community interdependence.

Matt Powers

What Is Regenerative Soil?

Matt Powers,M.Ed is an author, educator, citizen scientist, entrepreneur, and family guy who teaches people all over the world how to live more regeneratively. Personally driven by a deep desire to have the best food possible for his wife and cancer-survivor Adriana and their two boys, Matt, a former public high school teacher with a Masters degree in Education, is the creator of over a dozen online courses and author of over 20 books on permaculture and regenerative soil science like The Permaculture Student series and the Regenerative Soil Trilogy.

Amy Landers

Superfoods for Butterflies

Amy Landers is a nature nerd, educator, and writer. She’s been gardening and composting for more than 25 years. Amy teaches gardeners how to grow food and wildlife habitats through her classes at GardensThatMatter.com. She also loves helping people compost through her book, The Happy Garden Guide to Composting. At GardensThatMatter.com, Amy is complemented by her husband, Colby, who is a theater designer and carpenter. They grow a “beyond organic” garden in Western North Carolina, where their three boys enjoy the fruits, flowers, and fascinating wildlife that fill the yard especially the strawberries!

Kami McBride

Healing with Garden Sage!

Kami McBride is the author of The Herbal Kitchen and many online courses that help you to build confidence and skill using herbs in your daily life for prevention and herbal self-care. Kami’s 35 years of teaching herbal medicine is steeped in her calling to inspire a culture that embraces taking care of our bodies with healing herbs, a deep connection with the Earth, and a lifestyle that passes this knowledge on to our children. Kami has taught herbal medicine at University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, and the Integral Health Masters’ program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She has helped thousands of families learn to use herbs for their primary wellness strategy and self-care. Her online courses help people from all walks of life become skilled in using herbs for prevention and herbal self-care, even if you are just starting out on your herbal knowledge journey. Connect with Kami at www.KamiMcBride.com.

Sajah Popham

Garden of Immunity: Herbal Remedies for Resilience

Sajah Popham is the author of Evolutionary Herbalism and the founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, where he trains herbalists in a holistic system of plant medicine that encompasses clinical Western herbalism, medical astrology, Ayurveda, and spagyric alchemy.

His comprehensive approach focuses on balancing the science and spirituality of plant medicine. He focuses on using plants to heal and rejuvenate the body, clarify the mind, open the heart, and support the development of the soul. This is achieved through understanding and working with the chemical, energetic, and spiritual properties of the plants. His teachings embody a heartfelt respect, honor, and reverence for the vast intelligence of plants in a way that empowers us to look deeper into the nature of our medicines and ourselves.

He lives on a homestead in the foothills of Mt. Baker, Washington with his wife and children, where he teaches, consults clients, and prepares spagyric herbal medicines.

Stacey Murphy

The Bioenergetic and Electroculture Garden

Stacey has traveled to gardens, farms, and homesteads across the globe and has curated best practices from coast to coast. Stacey envisions a world where everyone is nourished by the magic of fresh, affordable, and culturally exciting food…extra points if it is homegrown. She is one of the world’s top gardening experts, featured on Martha Stewart Radio and PBS’s Growing a Greener World and once appeared on the David Letterman show featuring a giant radish! She is known for her superpower of packing, literally, tons of vegetables and herbs into tight spaces, and she has helped thousands of new gardeners from six continents enjoy fresh, affordable food grown at home–whether in a pot on a window sill or a front lawn full of veggies.

Charles Dowding

Nutritious Harvests with No-Dig Gardening

Charles has made no dig gardening popular and widely used. He develops and explains other time- and labor-saving methods of gardening, high yielding and nature friendly, including quick ways of growing and picking salad leaves, multi-sowing vegetables to grow in clumps, and making and using compost. Since 1982, he has created and cropped four no dig market gardens on different soils, from stone to silt to clay. In the 1980s, he cropped 7.5 acres (3ha) of no dig beds, and in the 1990s, he farmed in France. Currently, he grows vegetables on a third of an acre in Somerset, SW England (zone 8).

Charles' mission is to encourage as many people as possible to grow their own food. Gardening with the no dig method is beneficial for a healthy mind and body and protects soil life. Carbon is trapped in the ground, so there is a general benefit too. He has authored fifteen books, produces a popular YouTube channel with over 76 million views, contributes to national gardening magazines, and offers various online courses aimed at spreading no-dig gardening knowledge globally.

Michael Kilpatrick

Backyard Fruit Essentials

Michael Kilpatrick is a farmer, educator, and inventor who is passionate about equipping farmers with the tools and systems they need to thrive! He is the host of the top rated Thriving Farmer Podcast and Thriving Farmer Summit series, which has been viewed by over 50,000 farmers.

He has managed large farms and businesses, consulted for industry experts around the world, and spoken at dozens of conferences. Michael believes that anyone can farm and offers educational resources as host of the Thriving Farmer Podcast and through his virtual summits and online community Small Farm University.

Ocean Robbins

Supercharge Your Health with Berries and Greens

Ocean Robbins is co-founder & CEO of the 700,000 member Food Revolution Network. He is author of the bestseller, 31-Day Food Revolution: Heal Your Body, Feel Great, and Transform Your World. Ocean founded Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!) at age 16, and directed it for the next 20 years. He has spoken in person to more than 200,000 people, organized online seminars and events reaching more than a million, and facilitated leadership development events for leaders from 65 nations. He has served as adjunct professor for Chapman University, and is a recipient of the national Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service, the Freedom’s Flame Award, the Harmon Wilkinson Award, and many other honors.