More About Kevin Espiritu

Kevin Espiritu is a self-taught urban gardener in San Diego, CA. He started the website Epic Gardening in 2013 with the mission of teaching 10,000,000 people to grow their own food. It's since grown to a global movement including a daily podcast, YouTube channel, thriving social media community, and a newly-released book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening. Kevin believes everyone can grow some of their own food, no matter where they live, and the fun, practical how-to content he puts out showcases growing options for gardeners of all levels in different living spaces.

More About Marjory Wildcraft

Marjory Wildcraft is the founder of The Grow Network which is the world’s premier community of people who are becoming extremely healthy by making their own medicine and growing their own food. Marjory has been featured as an expert in sustainable living by National Geographic, has hosted Mother Earth News’ online Homesteading Summit, was honored in Reuters “Food Sustainability Media Award”, and is a regular guest on many national radio and tv shows.

Marjory has shown hundreds of thousands of people how to grow half of their own food, in a backyard, in less than an hour per day. Her systems are used by foodies, homesteaders, survivalists, missionary organizations, NGO’s, and universities in more than 39 countries. Marjory can be reached at www.TheGrowNetwork.com

More About Melissa Norris

Melissa K. Norris is a 5th generation homesteader who believes everything looks and tastes better homegrown and in a Mason jar. She and her family live in the foothills of the North Cascade mountain range where they raise over 60% of their own food and teach others how to use modern homesteading skills to raise, preserve and cook their own organic food no matter where you live. Her blog, melissaknorris.com and the Pioneering Today Podcast, inspire and teach over two hundred thousand people a month, how to create an old-fashioned farm to table lifestyle, with, or without the full on homestead. When she's not chasing chickens, stuffing food into Mason jars from the garden (after washing her hands of course) you can find her working on her next book. She's the author of The Made-from-Scratch Life and Hand Made: the Modern Guide to Made-from-Scratch Living and soon to be released, The One-Year Garden Plan.

More About Sajah Popham

Sajah Popham, founder of Organic Unity and The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, is a student of the universal truths found within both ancient and modern herbal traditions from around the world. The focus of his work is on integrating ancient teachings for a new paradigm of plant medicine, one that is truly holistic in its honoring of the spirit, energetics, and body of both people and plants. His unique synthesis bridges herbalism not only east and west, but north and south, above and below, into a universal philosophy that encompasses indigenous wisdom, Ayurveda, western Alchemy and Spagyrics, Astrology, clinical herbalism, and modern pharmacology.

Sajah’s vitalist approach utilizes plants not only for physiological healing and rejuvenation, but for the evolution of consciousness, for a truly holistic practice of plant medicine. Sajah’s 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 in southern Oregon with his wife where he teaches at his school, makes spagyric medicines, and practices his art.

More About John Moody

John is the author of the Food Clubs and Coops Handbook, the Frugal Homesteader Handbook (August 2018), Winning the War on Weeds (Summer 2019), The Elderberry Book (Fall 2019), along with a frequent contributor to publications such as Wise Traditions, New Pioneer, Hobby Farms, Chicken magazine, and many others. He has spoken at dozens of conferences around the nation on a wide range of topics related to food, health, homesteading and farming. In 2006, he founded the Whole Life Buying Club, which has helped dozens of farmers and many hundreds of families connect with real, local food.

His favorite things are church, family, homesteading, and judo. He and his wife Jessica and five kids homestead and farm on 35 acres in the rolling hills of Kentucky, where they produce Abby’s elderberry syrup, Caleb’s fantastic worm compost, pasture raised pork and eggs, various annual and perennial foods, and trouble.

More About Stacey Murphy

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’s homegrown.

Stacey 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 that’s a pot on a window sell or a front lawn full of veggies.

More About Greg Peterson

Farmer Greg has lived at the Urban Farm for 29 years. His home was Phoenix's first environmental showcase for urban farming. It is a 1/3-acre urban yard that features an entirely edible landscape – including: chickens, over 70 fruit trees, rainwater and greywater harvesting, solar applications, and extensive use of reclaimed and recycled building materials.

In 1974 at the age of 14 he wrote a paper for school on how we were overfishing the oceans. He discovered permaculture in 1991 and that one concept transformed his life. Then in 1999 he went back to college to get a bachelor’s degree and a Masters in Urban and Environmental Planning in 2006.
Farmer Greg hosts the UrbanFarmPodcast.com, is a frequent radio and TV guest on all topics food related.

On his days off he hangs out in his garden with his sweetheart Heidi and their chickens, creating new projects and catching some rays.

More About Kami McBride

Kami McBride’s mission is to inspire a cultural shift 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. She is the is author of The Herbal Kitchen and over the past 27 years has helped thousands of people demystify the world of herbal medicine and learn just how simple it can be to use the healing power of their garden for self-care, to prevent illness and take care of common ailments. She has developed and taught herbal curriculum for UCSF School of Nursing and her work is centered in sustainable wellness practices, creating self-reliance and revitalizing our relationship with the plant world. You can find her at herbal-kitchen.com/ordernow

More About Michael Kilpatrick

Michael is a farmer, presenter, inventor and entrepreneur who lives to help farmers apply business principles and practical, proven solutions to grow their businesses and simplify their lives. He has managed large certified organic farms and businesses, consulted for industry experts, and spoken at dozens of conferences.

Michael believes that anyone can farm if they have set up the right systems and understand what their customers need.

So, whether you are a gardener/want to be farmer who needs a start-up plan, or an experienced grower who needs to reduce the stress and hours you are working, Michael’s excited about helping you streamline your business and taking it to the next level.

More About Dax Funderburk

As a very young child when asked ‘Dax, where are you going?’ the common response was a ‘Out to dig a hole down!’ Summers spent with grandparents and neighbors in the gardens of his youth led to a lifelong passion that he now shares with his wife and four daughters. Growing heirloom garlic for more than two decades now, what was once a hobby that provided a needed respite from the challenges of various professional engagements has turned into a passionate second career at www.hardneckgarlic.com. When not out “digging holes down” on their two family farms in Pennsylvania and Vermont you’ll find the Funderburk family at various garlic festivals throughout the Northeast United States with their more than 90 varieties of hardneck garlic, helping others GROW GREAT GARLIC!

More About Jesicca Smith

Jessica Smith is a Certified Ecological Farmer and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. With a B.S. in Sustainable Living and Living Soils, she combines her passions to encourage the earth and its inhabitants back into a state of balance and vitality. She teaches regenerative and ecological gardening and farming in hopes to improve soil health, ecosystem health, environmental health, and human health, which lead her to meet Joe Rignola and create the documentary, Grow Food, to share this solution with the world. She is also part of the crew at Human Longevity Project to further share the ancient wisdom of the elders and knowledge of the experts on how to regain our health in today's world. Our connection with our food and the land plays a big part.

More About Daniel Brisebois

Dan Brisebois is a founding member of Tourne-Sol co-operative farm where he leads the seed team. Tourne-Sol is a worker co-operative that grows certified organic seeds and vegetables in Les Cèdres, Québec, just outside of Montreal.  With 7 coop members and 7 additional staff they keep themselves busy selling organic seeds through an online store and seed rack program; and distributing organic vegetables through 500 weekly CSA vegetable baskets.

Dan is also co-author of Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers and blogs at goingtoseed.net. He is in the process of launching the Farmer Spreadsheet Academy to share his love of spreadsheets! Dan wants farmers to improve their spreadsheets to make their farms more profitable and their lives easier.

More About Tom Bartels

Tom Bartels lives in Durango CO at 6400 feet of elevation where he grows 1000 lbs of organic food in the 130-day season at his home each year. He’s been using biointensive methods since 2001, and shows others how to do the same, regardless of where they live or the size of their garden. He created Growfoodwell.com to help people learn how to use a natural systems approach to increase nutritional density per square foot while reducing labor. Tom has been an environmental educator for over 25 years and advocates an accelerated transition to organics and local food models for multiple benefits.

More about Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy is the host of the Beginner's Garden Podcast - with easy-to-understand resources, tips, and information to help beginning growers get the most out of their food growing adventure - big or small.