Jennifer Adler provides individual and family nutrition counseling at her private practice, Realize Health, and is an adjunct faculty member at Bastyr University.
Lacia Lynne Bailey
Lacia has been growing food since childhood 4H veggie sales and wants to translate what she learned on the farm to urban food for everyone, including renters! As the old saying goes, "You can take the girl out of the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the girl" With her life experiences and a degree in Environmental Engineering, Lacia looks at how the parts of the system work together to create the right abundance for you. Now that miniature dairy goats are legal in Seattle, she is also excited to share the possibilities of these delightful creatures to our home food supply.
Willi Galloway
Willi Galloway is the creator of the vegetable gardening and cooking blog DigginFood, a regular guest on the KUOW 94.9 gardening call-in show Greendays, and the West Coast Editor of Organic Gardening magazine.
Suzanne Greive
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Michael Lockman
Michael Lockman founded WE-design Inc. in 1995 to offer sustainable design and consultation services to local homeowners. His sustainability skills are hard at work every day, helping to improve the relationship between homeowners and the environment, one garden at a time. A freelance writer and former adjunct professor in Antioch University's Environment and Community program, Michael holds an M.A. in Ecological Design.
Laura Matter
Laura Matter is the Lead Environmental Educator on the Seattle Tilth Garden Hotline. She has been a practicing horticulturist for the past 30 years, and has a B.A. in Botany from the University of Washington. Laura has her own business providing landscape consultations and garden tutoring, specializing in native plantings, wildlife habitat and edible gardens. She has been one of the site coordinators of the Picardo Farm P-Patch for the past 5 years, and volunteered in public schools and community planting projects.
Sue McGann
Sue McGann is an avid food gardener and community activist. She is the farm manager at Marra Farm and in her spare time she works with Puget School Gardens Collective, Sustainable NE, and the urban farmers of SUSTNE, where she spreads the word on home food gardening.
Jason and Shannon Mullett-Bowlsby
Known together as The Shibaguyz, Shannon & Jason co-author the life-style blog "Here we go! Life with the Shibaguyz…" Shannon is a King County Master Gardener and Jason teaches classes in bread making and cooking with local, seasonal foods. Both are on the boards of Community Harvest of Southwest Seattle and the Longfellow Creek Community Garden as well as being site coordinators for the Longfellow Creek P-Patch. Together, they have launched their new business The Lazy Locavores as edible gardening coaches.
Steffany Neuschaefer
Steffany's business, Herbal Spirits, is designing residential landscapes with edibles, herbs and natives so others can grow and enjoy the many uses of these plants. Creating interactive gardens and landscapes has been a part of Steffany's pleasure since 1998. Sharing her passion for gardening is what she loves to do. Steffany's formal training includes a Landscape Design Degree from South Seattle Community College; a Certificate from the Master Gardener's Program; and studies in Herbalism from Sage Mountain Herbal Center.
Sandy Pederson
Sandy Pederson is the Proprietor of Urban Land Army, a local web-based business that teaches city people how to grow their own vegetables and supports community projects like Bucket Brigade, which turns unwanted pots and buckets into veggie container gardens.
Jayne Simmons
Jayne Simmons wants you to grow your own vegetables and make your own home remedies, and generally become more self sufficient. Jayne lives in West Seattle and owns Sister Sage Herbs, an herb farm and natural remedies company on Vashon Island, and Good Food Gardens, an edible landscape consultant, and urban mini farm installation and maintenance company in Seattle & on Vashon Island. She has been an avid gardener and cook for over 20 years, served on the Board of Directors for Seattle Tilth from 2002 until 2005, and helped to re-create The Longfellow Creek Community Garden in 2008.
Laila Suidan
Laila Suidan is a long-time lover of edible gardening who does consulting and landscaping through her business, Down to Earth Landscapes. She is also an environmental educator with the Garden Hotline at Seattle Tilth. She is a graduate of South Seattle Community College's Horticulture program, has a bachelor's degree in Zoology, and is a Certified Arborist.
Carey Thornton
Carey Thornton is focused on food. She is a Garden Educator for Seattle Tilth teaching folks how to grow organic vegetables and make their own compost in an urban environment. She also works for Food $ense, a program of the WSU Extension that teaches nutrition in low-income elementary schools in King County. Carey loves living in West Seattle and being a board member for Community Harvest. Her passion is empowering people to feed themselves well from seed to table- growing healthy food, cooking a fresh and simple meal, then sharing it with friends, family and neighbors.
Ingela Wanerstrand
Ingela Wanerstrand is a Certified Professional Horticulturist and Plant Amnesty Certified Pruner and has learned how to prune fruit trees from books and school but, mostly from several big, beautiful old trees that she has been restoring and pruning every year for 13 years now.
