Jeff Ball is 69 and has been a full time garden writer for 28 years. He has written 9 books which are the source of much of the information on this site. He has produced garden videos, a gardening CDROM, and a garden planner software package. For 8 years he was the monthly gardening expert on the NBC Today Show in New York City. He writes a weekly yardening column for the Detroit News and a monthly column on tools and vegetable gardening in the Michigan Gardener magazine. He lives in central Michigan.

Nancy Szerlag has been a full time garden writer for 15 years.  She has had a weekly column in the Detroit News for all of that period.  She has written two books.  She gives dozens of programs in the Detroit region each year.  She has built and cares for two large perennial gardens, an extensive shade garden, a vegetable garden, and a shrub bed.  

John Davis is in his 40s and has been a professional web software developer for fourteen years. He lives in central California.