About

Madison is a writer, editor and life-long plant lover. After discovering an obsession with indoor gardening, she transformed her passion for plants into a career, contributing to various online and print publications in the gardening sphere. Through her writing, Madison hopes to encourage new gardeners to garden with the plants and the planet in mind.

Madison has written for many major online gardening publications. Her publication list includes All About Gardening, as well as Rural Sprout, Gardener Magazine, Blooming Backyard, and many others. When Madison isn’t writing for us, you can catch her in her native country of New Zealand planting in her garden.

Logan Hailey is a writer, nomad, organic farmer, and co-owner of Ramblin Farmers.  She lives and travels in an off-grid school bus, visiting ecological vegetable farms and gardens throughout the U.S. and teaching about regenerative agriculture and holistic health.

Logan specializes in organic gardening and has authored much of our organic gardening content at All About Gardening. When she’s not writing, or gardening, you can keep up with her adventures on Instagram, or on her podcast, The Soil Collective.

Taylor is a farmer-florist and owner at Sievers Blumen Farm, a fresh-cut flower farm in rural Illinois. She was raised on a cattle and grain farm and grew up participating in 4-H, FFA, and several horse shows. Her main interests are cooking from scratch, creating unique bouquets for her customers, wild plant identification, and learning about plant history and use.

Taylor received her Master’s degree in Plant, Soil, & Agricultural Systems in 2016 from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she studied cover crops and soil fertility. She and her husband are working towards their goal of a mostly self-sustaining homestead. She chronicles her flower farming and homesteading experiences on her farm blog, www.sieversblumenfarm.com.

Laura Elsner lives the garden life. She is a certified master gardener and has been gardening professionally for over 15 years.

When she’s not out in the dirt running her own gardening business, Calgary Gardener (www.calgarygardener.ca), she can be found reading about gardening, writing about gardening, out in her own garden, or fussing over her many houseplants.

As a Northern Climate gardener, Laura knows the challenges  of living and growing in a less than ideal environment.  She specializes in growing lush and visually stunning gardens, focusing on bloom times and plant choice. She loves playing with the various textures, colors, and features of plants to come up with interesting and lovely combinations. 

Laura is also a mom to two young boys who enjoy helping out in the garden, especially anything that involves getting very muddy.

Liz Jaros is a professional writer and gardener who calls the Midwest home. She divides her time between running a small landscape design business (Yardlove), writing garden content and volunteering as a Certified Master Gardener. 

Formally educated in both horticulture and journalism, Liz is either working with plants or writing about them. She specializes in urban yard restoration and small property landscaping for metro area homeowners. She enjoys making plant recommendations for challenging sites, maintaining perennials, pruning shrubs, and coaching newbie gardeners. 

When not digging in the dirt (physically or verbally), Liz enjoys music, art, and cooking for the people she loves. She has three almost-grown children, a supportive husband, and two rescue pets.

Jill is currently a hobby gardener and stay at home mom. Her love for gardening came from a high school job at a local garden center. Jill then earned her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Horticulture and Turfgrass Management from the University of Rhode Island in 2007.

Jill has spent her years post college as a plant recorder at a botanical garden, golf course horticulturist, and high-end gardener. She specializes in coastal plantings in zone 6b and loves hydrangeas.

Merideth is an organic gardener, suburban homesteader, and writer.  Her love for gardening developed a little later in life when she helped her mom build an organic hobby farm in central Texas.  Despite the crazy heat and fire ants, she was hooked!  Merideth now lives in northern Virginia with her family and dog, and when not in her backyard garden, can often be found getting happily lost hiking the Appalachian Trail. 

Sarah Hyde is a former organic farmer with over ten years experience growing vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruits for farmers markets, CSAs, and restaurants in the high desert of Arizona (zone 7b). Growing in Arizona gave her experience in drip irrigation, high tunnel crop management, and year-round harvesting.

Now based in Minnesota (zone 4b), she loves harvesting purple carrots and green beans with her family in their home garden and is learning how to grow native plants to transform the landscaping into a pollinator garden. She works as a Farm Consultant and is in the process of becoming a Master Gardener.

Emma Braby is an amatuer gardener, and plant hobbyist. Emma has written for many online publications, spending much of her writing time in the pet space. Emma spent many years in law enforcement in England, before becoming a full-time professional writer.

Emma is now remote and writes for many online publications full-time, including All About Gardening. Emma loves to research and write about plants. In her spare time, you’ll find Emma spending most of her time with her dog and husband, and also tending to the plants around her house and in her garden.

Lisa Ebner is a branding specialist that manages the Pinterest channel at All About Gardening. She is an expert in branding, and design, spending many years working for several clients designing everything from brand packages, to pieces of jewelry.

When Lisa isn’t managing our social media channels, you’ll find her spending time with her family and pets. She also manages her regular responsibilities while successfully maintaining a number of different houseplants in her home.