About Food Gardening Network
Welcome to Food Gardening Network, where three dynamic lifestyle brands—Food Gardening Magazine, GreenPrints Magazine, and RecipeLion Magazine—unite to cultivate your passion for gardening and culinary delights. With GreenPrints now an integral part of our family, our mission is to provide you with a comprehensive blend of expert advice and daily guidance for nurturing your own bountiful garden and kitchen coupled with joy, humor, and inspiration.
Each of our magazines brings a unique perspective to our community, drawing from a diverse array of worldwide contributors, including gardening writers, humorists, farmers, and cooking enthusiasts. Through captivating storytelling, vibrant artwork, and hands-on DIY projects, our magazines offer a delightful fusion of heartwarming tales, laughter-inducing anecdotes, and practical tips for elevating your gardening and culinary experiences.
As a member of the Food Gardening Network, you’ll become part of a thriving community of over 400,000 like-minded gardeners who share your passion for cultivating gardens and savoring delicious meals. Our extensive resources include a vast library of articles, comprehensive guides, engaging how-to videos, mouthwatering recipes, curated cookbooks, enchanting storybooks, greeting cards, ArtPrints, and handy gardening planning calendars.
Embark on this fulfilling journey where laughter, learning, and the wonders of gardening converge within the vibrant tapestry of Food Gardening Network. Join our community as we cultivate connections, share experiences, and celebrate the joys of nurturing both gardens and palates alike.
Welcome to Food Gardening Network!
Food Gardening Network Team
Don Nicholas
Founder & Executive Publisher
Don Nicholas serves as Executive Publisher for Food Gardening Network. He is responsible for all creative, technical, and financial aspects of this multiplatform brand. As senior member of the editorial team, he provides structural guidance, sets standards, and coordinates activities with the technology and business teams. Don is an active gardener whose favorite crops include tomatoes, basil, blueberries, and corn. He and his wife Gail live and work in southern Massachusetts surrounded by forests, family farms, cranberry bogs, and nearby beaches. Don is also the Founder of Mequoda Systems, LLC, which operates and supports numerous online communities including I Like Crochet, I Like Knitting, We Like Sewing, and We Like Quilting.
Nancy Horan
Executive Director
Nancy Horan manages all aspects of technology, operations, and finance for Food Gardening Network. With a strong focus on user experience, she translates the brand’s essence into a modern, multiplatform interface that includes web, email, video, and social media. In this role, Nancy oversees all technology including back-office operations and infrastructure, and is responsible for the daily operations of the organization and its financial health. Nancy is also EVP, Technology, Operations & Finance for Mequoda where she ensures the enterprise goes above and beyond to serve its audience members, sponsors, and affiliates.
Christy Page
Editor & Publisher
Christy Page serves as Editor & Publisher for Food Gardening Network and Mequoda Daily. She is responsible for the development and evolution of all editorial and marketing frameworks, as well as being the first point of contact for our business partners including sponsors, affiliates, and publishers. Christy favors fruit gardening, including berries, although they are often shared with the local wildlife, including bears! Her favorite “garden” is her fairy garden that she adds to each year.
Bill Dugan
Executive Editor
Bill Dugan serves as Executive Editor for Food Gardening Network. He is responsible for the development and evolution of all editorial and marketing frameworks. Bill first gained his gardening knowledge from his schoolteacher father—who spent his summers tending to a vast backyard food garden and teaching all eight of his children how to grow and harvest good food. Today, Bill tends a small balcony food garden from his apartment in Washington, D.C.
Shannon Lewis
General Manager
Shannon Lewis is General Manager for Food Gardening Network. She manages system development, content loading, and email broadcasting. She oversees the vast array of technology partners required to support a modern, multiplatform publishing system. Shannon also manages long-range forecasting, budgeting, and financial reporting for both our wholly owned systems and select business partners.
Eileen Shea
Content Marketing Director
Eileen Shea brings her decades of multiplatform publishing experience to Food Gardening Network as Content Marketing Director. She is responsible for all aspects of planning, execution, and analysis for digital marketing programs including audience acquisition, retention, and satisfaction. Eileen also provides ongoing marketing and consulting support to our publishing partners.
Norann Oleson
Editorial & Analytics Director
Norann Oleson serves as Editorial & Analytics Director, bringing a laser-like focus on business analysis and decision support. She also has deep domain knowledge around all aspects of gardening, which she uses to assist the team in making audience decisions that are data-driven and audience-centric. Norann also supervises all analytics support for our partners including publishers, sponsors, and affiliates.
Amanda MacArthur
Senior Editor & Producer
Amanda MacArthur is Senior Editor & Producer for Food Gardening Network. She is responsible for generating all daily content and managing distribution across web, email, and social. In her producer role, she plans, edits, and deploys all video content for guides, magazine issues, and daily tips. As a best-selling cookbook author, Amanda cooks using ingredients from her outdoor gardens in the summer and from her indoor hydroponic garden in the winter.
Deb Kelly
Business Manager
Deb Kelly serves as Mequoda’s Business Manager, responsible for day-to-day communication with our audience members about all aspects of their membership benefits, order fulfillment, and payments.