Rob Herring

You Are Nature: Science of Connecting to the Earth

Rob Herring directed and produced the award-winning film The Need To GROW, narrated by Rosario Dawson and seen in over 175 countries. He co-founded the platform Earth Conscious Life as an environmental filmmaker, citizen journalist, and musical activist. Rob worked on the critically acclaimed GMO OMG, and produced the film InterReflections, a 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. Rob is also a Certified Holistic Health Coach and is the co-founder of Integrative Pediatrics.

Jason Matyas

Heirloom Seeds & Maximum Nutrition 

Jason Matyas is a husband, father of seven, homesteader, lifelong gardener, 20 year Air Force veteran with 9 worldwide deployments, 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 training media project, as well as the founder of Get Ready to Thrive.

Greg Peterson

Planting Fruit Trees for Success

The Most Revolutionary Way to Water Your Garden

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.

Matt Powers

Regenerative Soil for an Abundant Harvest

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.

Kami McBride

Setting Up Your Herbal Kitchen

Edible Flower and Herb Walk

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

Your Complete Herbal Medicine Garden in 10 Plants

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

Adding Flowers to Your 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.

Michael Kilpatrick

Backyard Fruit Essentials for Growing Elderberries, Raspberries, Blueberries, Rhubarb and Strawberries

Michael Kilpatrick is a farmer and educator who is passionate about equipping farmers with the tools and systems they need to thrive! He offers educational resources as host of the Thriving Farmer podcast and through his virtual summits and online community Small Farm University. He also runs his own farm operation with his wife Savannah and their four children at the Farm on Central in southwest Ohio.

Ocean Robbins

Superfoods that are Super Easy to Fun and 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.

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.

Brian Vaszily

How Gardening Helps You Grow

Brian Vaszily [rhymes with PAISLEY] is one of today’s most renowned and respected healthy aging and longevity thought leaders, researchers, and advocates. For over 20 years, he’s helped guide millions of people to research-based natural health solutions, and he’s worked with and helped guide many of today’s other most prominent natural-health-oriented Mds and researchers. He’s the founder of the popular health destination, TheArtofAntiAging.com, with over 500,000 members. The Art of Anti-Aging's mission is to empower those in middle-age and their ‘golden years' with the most effective evidence-based natural solutions to look and feel their best, avoid and overcome disease, and live long. Brian has created and hosted multiple highly acclaimed online health and longevity summits that feature today’s top natural-health-oriented MDs and researchers and that have been heard by over a million people. Brian is also founder of PurityWoods.com, a fast-growing provider of premier-quality USDA Certified Organic skincare products.

Amy Landers

Superfoods for Wildlife

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!

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.

Bret James

More Harvest with Less Work

Bret James is a permaculture homesteader and educator, and co-founder of High Sierra Permaculture. Living with his family in the Sierra Nevada mountains, he has transformed raw land into a thriving regenerative homestead. Bret teaches practical, real-world methods for growing food, designing resilient systems, and helping others create more self-sufficient, sustainable lifestyles.

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.