Susan Belsinger - Growing vegetables, herbs, and flowers organically, harvesting them at their peak, and bringing them into the kitchen to create healthy, good-tasting dishes is a way of life for Susan Belsinger. She is a culinary herbalist who delights in kitchen alchemy—the blending of harmonious foods, herbs, and spices—to create real, delicious food that nourishes our bodies and spirits and titillates our senses. Susan teaches, lectures, and writes about gardening and cooking, and is a food writer, editor and photographer who has authored/co-authored 20 books and been published in nunmerous national magazines and newspapers. Currently, she blogs for Taunton Press’ www.vegetablegardener.com and has been contributing editor to Herb Companion for more than five years.

Tina Marie Wilcox  has been the head gardener and herbalist at the Ozark Folk Center's Heritage Herb Garden in Mountain View, Arkansas since 1984. She tends the extensive gardens, plans and coordinates annual herbal events and workshops and facilitates the production of sale plants, seeds and herbal products for the park.  She is a well-seasoned herbal educator and entertainer and co-author of The Creative Herbal Home, which has been translated into Japanese and released in Japan in 2010. 

Tina is currently collaborating with Co-Author, Susan Belsinger on articles for The Herb Companion, Herbs for Health and Grit Magazines. She writes a weekly herb and garden column entitled “Yarb Tales” for the Stone County Leader. 

Tina is a member of the Herb Society of America, the American Botanical Council, and serves on the board of the International Herb Association.

Tina Marie Wilcox sings and plays guitar with a women's trio known as The Herbin' League.  The trio performs traditional mountain folk music and an eclectic blend of favorite tunes with an emphasis on three-part harmony.

Tina's philosophy based upon experiencing the joy of the process, perpetrating no harm, and understanding life through play with plants and people.