Kevin Topping: Kevin Topping is a retired sustainability professional whose garden is a place of peace for all creatures.

Ginger Webb: Ginger lives with her husband, Ben, on a rocky hilltop where raspberries thrive but groundhogs don’t. Gardening is challenging for Ginger on a granite slab, but it’s impossible for a groundhog to raise a family there.

Don Nicholas: Don serves as Executive Publisher for Food Gardening Network and GreenPrints. He is an active gardener whose favorite crops include tomatoes, basil, blueberries, and corn. Don and his wife Gail live and work in southern Massachusetts surrounded by forests, family farms, cranberry bogs, and nearby beaches.

Jaci Hall: From San Jose, California: “My excuse? I live in a Eichler glass home where it’s hard to know where the garden ends and the house begins.” Her work appeared in GreenPrints Issues 33, 51, and 133.

Lisa Brunette: Lisa Brunette’s writing career spans 30 years and includes journalism, app games, museum exhibits, novels, corporate histories, and most recently, her garden blog: www.brunettegardens.com.

Lynnann Richards: Lynnann is a homeschooling mom, novelist, knitter, plant killer, and blogger. She lives in Florida with her three children and extended family of plants in every stage of thriving to dying.

Robert Loughran: Rob has been published in many national magazines including the October 1994 Fine Gardening where “The 118 Minute Bonsai” appeared.

Regular Contributing Editors: Vermont’s Becky Rupp has been a valuable mainstay of the magazine for decades, contributing her insightful perspectives about gardening, science, and life. Becky’s work has appeared in 94 GreenPrints issues!

Buds Credit

“There seems to be so much more Winter this year than we need …”—quotation selected by the GreenPrints editorial staff.

Send your favorite garden quote to submissions@greenprints.com with “Buds” in the subject line. If we use it, you get a free year’s subscription!