Stacey Murphy

Unlocking Sustainability with Scavenger Hunts

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

Ocean Robbins

Nutritious Foods People Can Easily Grow

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.

Dr. Trevor Cates

How Organic Superfoods Help Hormonal Balance and Skin

Dr. Trevor Cates is author of the USA Today bestselling book Clean Skin From Within and founder of The Spa Dr. natural skincare line. She was the first woman licensed as a naturopathic doctor in the state of California and was the doctor in several world-renowned spas in Park City, Utah. She continues to help women from around the world with a focus on skin and hormones. She has been featured on various TV shows, including The Doctors and Extra TV. Dr. Cates is host of the Hormones, Health, and Harmony Docuseries, The Woman’s Doctor. Podcast, and the Public Television special, Younger Skin From Within. Her next book provides a seasonal approach to food, movement, mindset and skincare. It's called Natural Beauty Reset: The 7-Day Program to Harmonize Hormones and Restore Radiance and is now available for pre orders on Amazon and hits bookstores in September 2022.

Paul & Edwin Dysinger

The Superfood Perpetual Harvest Hack

Edwin and Paul Dysinger are a father and son team and the co-founders of Seedtime. Together they create ground-breaking garden/farm planning software and teach thousands of people from around the world how to grow their own nutrient-dense organic food - right in their backyards.

Tom Bartels

Secrets to a Sustainable & Nutrient-Dense Veggie Garden

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

Rob Herring

You Are Nature: How Human & Planetary Health Are One

Rob Herring is an environmental filmmaker and musical activist. He directed/produced/wrote The Need To GROW, winner of multiple Best Documentary awards and seen in 175 countries around the world. Rob worked on the critically acclaimed GMO OMG, and is a Producer on the follow up to the world famous Zeitgeist Trilogy.

As a musician, Rob writes songs for health and eco activism, and headlined the Rock For Nature concert in Berlin for 25,000 people. He is also a Certified Holistic Health Coach and is the co-founder of Integrative Pediatrics.

Jessica Smith

School Gardens for Super Kids (and at Home!)

Jessica Smith is a Certified Ecological Farmer and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. With a B.S. in Sustainable Living focusing on Living Soils and an MSc. in Soil Science, she combines her passions to encourage the Earth and its inhabitants back into a state of balance and vitality. She teaches Nutrient Dense Gardening and Wildlife Habitat Restoration in hopes to improve soil health, ecosystem health, environmental health, and human health. She works with community organizations, schools, farmers, individuals, and online to help spread the message of growing food for better health and a better planet.

Jason Matyas

Five Simple Ways to Grow More Food in the Same Space

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.

Greg Peterson

The Most Revolutionary Way to Water Your Garden

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.

Marjory Wildcraft

How Tarahumara Indians Grow Their Own Food

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.

Michael Kilpatrick

Growing Tubers: Ginger and Tumeric

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 build a profitable farm by following the simple business and management skills that he teaches in the Small Farm University, his company's educational platform and community for thriving farmers.

Kami McBride

Edible Flower & Herb Walk

Kami McBrides’ 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 author of the much loved book, 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, prevent illness, and take care of common ailments.

Kami developed and taught the 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.

Tasha Greer

Weeds are Superfoods Too (for you & your garden!)

Tasha Greer is an Epicurean homesteader and writer focused on simple, sustainable living. She's the author of Weed-Free Gardening and Grow Your Own Spices. She gardens in Surry County, North Carolina on about 1.5 acres and grows a large variety of annual and perennial edible, medicinal, and ecosystem support plants. 

Additionally, she has a large greenhouse for year-round gardening and exotic edibles. Tasha also keeps ducks, dairy goats, chickens, a pet turkey, worms, and (occasionally) pigs to help with landscaping projects and manage soil fertility. She also teaches classes related to growing food, edible landscaping, and organic

Matt Powers

The Miracle of Soil Organic Matter

Matt Powers (M.Ed) is an author, educator, seed saver, gardener, and entrepreneur focused on radically transforming the entire K-12 education system through the collegiate system as well as the economy such that it aligns with regenerative science, natural principles, and permaculture ethics: Earth Care, People Care, & Future Care.

Matt, a former public high school teacher with a Masters degree in Education, is the author of the first government accredited permaculture curriculum in North America (fully cited, peer-reviewed, & aligned to national standards), and his work continues to spread in schools, colleges, and universities globally with over a dozen books in 6 languages and 10 online courses. Matt is on a mission to empower people everywhere to live more regeneratively.

John Moody

The Amazing Elderberry

John Moody 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.

Jana Bogs

Double the Nutrient Content of Your Crops + Citrus for Cleansing

Dr. Bogs started her career in the field of holistic nutrition, but then saw studies showing significant drops in food nutrient content. What was there to do but go back to the soil and grow crops the right way to restore food quality? With much research, Dr. Bogs developed the award-winning Beyond Organic Growing System (BOGS) which can double food nutritional content. Her unique research extends from soil to human blood, bridging an understanding of how soil health affects human health. Her students and clients range from backyard gardeners to large scale farmers across the US and Canada.

Meg Groves

Engaging Kids in the Garden

As an educator with over a decade of classroom experience, Meg knows that teaching begins with giving students the best tools and resources available as they explore their unique interests. Like many educators, the pandemic challenged her to expand her understanding of education, and she grew passionate about structuring lessons for distance learning.Beekeeping and gardening have taught her the importance of understanding yourself as a part of nature’s ecosystems. She encourages her students to see themselves as lifelong learners, active creators of the future, and stewards of the environment. She believes that the greatest gift we can give children is modeling curiosity and joy in learning

Gracie Schatz

Spanakopita - A Delicious & Nutritious Superfood Feast

Gracie Schatz has been in the food industry for 15 years, bouncing back and forth between farms, restaurants, butcher shops and market places between Oregon, California and Italy. Her passion has always been to feel a deep connection to her food and to share that connection with others. She currently resides in Eugene, Oregon where she runs Marigold Cooking Collective, a nonprofit cooking school with a focus on providing free culinary education to teenagers and a wide variety of sliding scale community cooking classes for all ages and skill levels. She believes that the joy shared in the kitchen and at the dinner table is a powerful and magnificent force of good in this world.