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SUMMER 2010

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Marianne Broome is a full time artist whose work can be found in many private and corporate collections.

Ken Brown is a horticultural consultant, writer and photographer. Throughout his gardens, he grows a wide range of vegetables in innovative ways to maximize the use of space.

Janet Croken has been practising yoga for 20 years and teaching for nine.

Sonia Day is the Toronto Star gardening columnist and an author of six books including Middle-Aged Spread, Moving to the Country at 50 and her latest work, Incredible Edibles, 43 Fun Things To Grow In The City.

Ruth Devor has been sculpting for over 40 years. Her work is featured in many corporate and private collections in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Chicago, Philadelphia and Florida galleries. Teaching positions include Havergal College and the Royal Ontario Museum. Visit her website, www.ruthdevor.com, for more information.

Sarah Elton is a writer and journalist. She is the food columnist for CBC Radio’s Here&Now and writes regularly for publications across North America including The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s and The Atlantic. Locavore: From Farmers’ Fields to Rooftop Gardens, How Canadians Are Changing the Way We Eat is her first book.

David Garcelon is the Executive Chef at The Fairmont Royal York, www.fairmont.com/royalyork, the first Canadian to hold that position. He was previously the Executive Chef at The Fairmont Southampton in Bermuda, which was honoured with the AAA Five Diamond award.

Jane Hayes is a new mom with 15 years of experience designing and running children’s gardens. She founded Garden Jane, a community-oriented business that helps people of all ages learn how to grow and prepare their own healthy food. Jane’s experience includes working with the City of Toronto, starting the award-winning Children’s Garden program, as well as Evergreen and multiple schools and daycares. She has a Masters in Environmental Studies and is certified to teach permaculture gardening. Please visit her website, www.gardenjane.com.

Connie Hunter is a Toronto Master Gardener and experienced teacher. She has accumulated a wealth of knowledge from her country vegetable garden north of the city.

Judy James completed the Garden Clubs of Ontario Design Judges Course in 2005 and is currently taking the Horticultural Judges’ Course at the RBG. She has sat on the Program Committee, Floral Design Committee, Chaired the Garden Hall at Canada Blooms, Chaired the Awards Committee and currently is Chair of the Provisional Committee for the Garden Club.  She has won a number of Awards at Canada Blooms as well as at the Ontario Garden Club Show and the CNE.  Judy has also studied Ikenobo, the oldest form of Ikebana for the past five years.

Marion Jarvie, horticulturist, has spent more than 25 years teaching at the TBG and the University of Toronto and has lectured around the world.

Lorraine Johnson has been writing books and articles for more than fifteen years and become known for her unconventional outlook on the world of gardening. Advocating for organics in the days when synthetic chemicals ruled, writing about native plants before most people had heard the term, promoting community gardening when politicians were wary of involving people in parks, profiling guerrilla gardens when the idea still sounded vaguely dangerous, Lorraine has always written about marginal subjects on their way to becoming mainstream. Her works include The Real Dirt, 100 Easy to Grow Native Plants: For Canadian Gardens and her latest book, City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing.

Frank Kershaw is the former Director of Policy and Development for Parks and Recreation at the City of Toronto. He has visited and photographed more than 2,000 gardens worldwide.

Marjorie Mason is the owner of Mason House Gardens. She can be heard every Saturday on her radio program,Let’s Get Growing, on CKDO.

Marsha Ostrovsky is a certified yoga teacher and an intern of Garden Jane. She trained in classical Hatha yoga in the foothills of the Himalayas. She is grateful to be sharing with people of all abilities and backgrounds the profound peace that comes with regular yoga practice. As part of her conscious approach to life, Marsha also gardens, raises red wiggler worms, and prepares and shares fresh and healthy meals made from produce that is locally grown -- at least in the summer months; this is her way of extending the ethics of yoga to encompass both self-care and Earth care.

Sandra Pella is the Head Gardener at the Toronto Botanical Garden.

Aldona Satterthwaite is the Executive Director of the Toronto Botanical Garden and a Master Gardener. She was formerly editor-in-chief of Canadian Gardening magazine and Director of Writing Services at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Michael Spillane owns his own art studio, Spillane Studio of Fine Arts, in Port Credit. He was editor and art director for Plant & Garden magazine and has published over 300 articles worldwide.

Pamela Stagg is a popular teacher who has achieved international recognition for her botanical painting, including the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society Gold Medal.

Leslie Staple is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art. Her botanical watercolours have been shown in numerous group exhibitions throughout North America.

Kate Seaver,is a Master Gardener, Garden Décor Expert, Professional
Organizer, Entrepreneur and Lifestyle Coach. Before deciding to pursue her passion for gardening, Kate spent almost twenty years in the corporate world serving as a senior executive for two large Canadian companies.  Now owner of Kate’s Garden, specializing in Services, Seminars and Special Events in Markham. Kate is a frequent Horticultural speaker and television guest. Visit her website for more information www.katesgarden.ca.

Elizabeth Stewart is a Toronto Master Gardener and TBG volunteer who harvests three vegetable crops ayear in her small downtown Toronto backyard. Her garden was featured in Canadian Gardening magazine in February 2009.

Margaret Taylor is an accredited floral design judge, teacher and demonstrator. She has won many awards for her designs.

Mark Trusz is both a photographer and an enthusiatic photography instructor.

Paul Zammit is the Director of Horticulture at the TorontoBotanical Garden and a regular presenter on television and at various horticultural events.