Authors

Jeff Lowenfels

Jeff Lowenfels hosts a weekly garden radio show and grew up working on his father’s farm in Scarsdale, New York, where he helped to plant, weed and mow, and picked fruits, flowers and vegetables on 8 acres of gardens, orchards and beds.

For the last 30 years, Jeff has lived in Anchorage, Alaska, where he has been able to translate his work-filled childhood into a meaningful and enjoyable hobby, founding Plant A Row for The Hungry, an active program that created over 14 million meals to feed the hungry in 2005. A popular garden writer and leading proponent of gardening using the concepts of the soil food web, Jeff is the former president of the Garden Writers of America and was made a GWA Fellow in 1999. In 2005, he was inducted into the GWA Hall of Fame, the highest honour a garden writer can achieve.

Jeff teaches home gardeners about the soil food web with a painless and extremely entertaining method. After just one hour, his audiences know how to return beneficial biology to their soils and why it is necessary to do so.