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.

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.

Sajah Popham

Growing a Garden of Calm

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 mission is to develop a comprehensive approach that balances 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 Whitney where he teaches, consults clients, and prepares spagyric herbal medicines.

Amy Landers

Superfood for Wildlife

Amy Landers loves to help gardeners grow food for humans and wildlife. She’s been writing and teaching about nature and gardening for more than 20 years. She has presented at Organic Growers School, ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden, Master Gardener programs, the Garden Hack Summit, the Grow Network, and more. She loves bringing gardeners together to share experiences and learn through the online classes and community she hosts at GardensThatMatter.com. As a nature nerd, she’s well complemented by her husband, Colby, who brings an artistic approach and building skills to the team. 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!

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.

Catie Coman
(Save the Bee)

Gardening with Bees

As executive director of Save the Bee, Catie Coman is dedicated to protecting pollinators because bees, beetles, moths, and more, are critical to our health and the health of our planet. At Save the Bee, Catie is focused on projects that serve bees and beekeepers, including planting pollinator habitat in agricultural areas.

Catie lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she is a hobbyist beekeeper and an amateur gardener.

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

“What if there was a garden and fruit tree in every yard?” This is a question that Greg 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 grey water 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.

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

Growing Farmers is led by Michael Kilpatrick, a farmer, educator, and inventor who lives in Ohio. 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 by following the simple business and management skills that he teaches in the Small Farm University, our community for thriving farmers.

Kami McBride

Herbs for Dinner!

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.

Rik Vermuyten

Real Human Agriculture

Rik Vermuyten started studying the oriental philosophy and medicine in 1969. Worked several years in a hospital in Antwerp ,Belgium in medical chemistry. BAc in Acupuncture (1983). Studied natural medicine, phytotherapy (herbal medicine), homeopathy, naturopathy, nutrition, biochemistry, acupuncture, Feng Shui. He studied and practiced organic agriculture since 1972 and natural agriculture and permaculture (permanent agriculture) since 1991. Rik created a lot of seminars on health and a healthy lifestyle: How to create your own health, How does our body and mind work, Women's Natural Health, Understanding the purpose of Life, Creating the Life of your dreams, Developing freedom, Using the power of our Mind, Creating a more Spiritual Life, Create your own healthy foods at home and in your garden, Make a permaculture garden step by step, Use healthy foods and herbs from your garden as your medicine. Seminars and consultations in English, French, German, Spanish and Flemish

Matt Powers

Permaculture for Beginners

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.

Enoch Graham

Small Space Gardening

Enoch is a small space gardener who has been growing his own food for over 12 years in his limited urban space in southern Oregon. While growing many different varieties of fruits and vegetables in his small space garden he has taken his gardening skills to new levels each year, and has been sharing his gardening adventures with viewers on his YouTube channel "the Urban Gardener" for the last 7 years. When his passion for growing his own food and gardening grew over the years he never imagined where it would take him. He is constantly surprised that he gets back by sharing his growing adventure.

Paul Wheaton

Replacing Irrigation with Permaculture

Paul Wheaton is a powerful advocate of permaculture. He was dubbed the "Duke of Permaculture" by Geoff Lawton and Sepp Holzer, and the "Bad Boy of Permaculture" by Occupy Monsanto. Paul is the owner of permies.com, coderanch.com, richsoil.com, and Wheaton Labs. He has produced over 600 podcasts, 200 youtube videos and a dozen feature-length films. He has presented at over 100 events around the US, and has written dozens of articles and 2 books on topics ranging from luxuriant environmentalism to homesteading skills. The events he hosts at his property, Wheaton Labs, have resulted in the development of rocket stove and rocket mass heater technology, massive earthworks featuring extensive hugelkultur, solar dehydrators, lots and lots of round wood timberframe structures like a truly passive earth-bermed solar greenhouse and a mega-cheap and luxurious home design called the Wofati, as well as many, many other permaculture innovations.

Tradd Cotter

4 Easy Ways to Grow Mushrooms

Tradd Cotter is a microbiologist, professional mycologist, and organic gardener, who has been tissue culturing, collecting native fungi in the Southeast, and cultivating fungi for over two decades. Tradd Cotter is cofounder of Mushroom Mountain, a world class 50,000 square foot laboratory and research facility for mushroom cultivation to explore applications for mushrooms in various industries focusing on mycoremediation and medicinal research. What began as a mushroom experiment in an apartment closet transformed into a laboratory constructed to EPA and FDA standards that houses more than 200 species of fungi, most of them native isolates from the Eastern United States.

Crystal Meserole

Understanding Different Types of Seeds

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 they craft for our communities.

“After several 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 and my failures transformed into a successful small farm operation within months. So when the opportunity arrived to work for Grow Your Own Vegetables and train to 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 hopes to stand as a clear message to anyone who thinks they can’t grow: You can. Anyone can. With the right system, mindsets, and mentor, everything becomes possible.

Melissa Norris

Grow Amazing Blueberries

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 they live. Her blog, melissaknorris.com and the Pioneering Today Podcast, inspire and teach over two hundred thousand people every 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. Melissa is the author of several books including: The Made-from-Scratch Life and Hand Made: the Modern Guide to Made-from-Scratch Living and her soon to be released book, The One-Year Garden Plan.