Jesse Frost, aka Farmer Jesse, is a certified organic market gardener, freelance journalist, and the host of The No-Till Market Garden Podcast. He is also a co-founder of notillgrowers.com, where he helps collect the best and latest no-till insights from growers in the United States, Canada, the UK, and Europe. He and his wife, Hannah Crabtree, practice no-till farming at Rough Draft Farmstead in central Kentucky. Specialty: Soil Carbon​​​

Bill McDorman has committed his productive life to community-based seed stewardship.  For more than 40 years, he has been a passionate and knowledgeable presenter who inspires his audiences with the importance of grassroots seed saving and urges everyone to learn to save their own seeds.

In 1981 he co-founded Garden City Seeds in Missoula, Montana. In 1984 he started Seeds Trust/High Altitude Gardens, a bioregional, mail-order seed company he ran successfully for 28 years.  He authored the book Basic Seed Saving in 1994.  In 2010, Bill and his wife Belle founded Seed School, an internationally recognized education program now with thousands of graduates from around the world. From 2011 until 2014 they served as Executive Directors of Native Seeds/SEARCH in Tucson, Arizona.  In 2015 they were recruited with friend John Caccia to start the Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance.  Bill now spends time in his own garden.  His seed list is available at Cornville Seed.

In 2016, Bill and his wife Belle joined us in the Philippines to lead a 3 day Seed School and Farmer Capacity Building Training for 60 farmers from all over the Philippines. This training was a catalyst to launching our current seed-saving educational model, and Bill continues to be one of our most trusted advisors. 

Andrew Mefferd is the editor of Growing for Market magazine, and the author of The Greenhouse and Hoophouse Grower’s Handbook, The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution, and Practical No-Till Farming: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Organic Vegetable and Flower Growing.

He spent seven years in the research department at Johnny’s Selected Seeds, consulting with researchers and farmers on the best practices in greenhouse growing. He worked on farms in Pennsylvania, California, Washington State, Virginia, and New York State before starting his own farm in Maine.​