caught the gardening bug when Heart Beet started in 2006. Her passion for gardening has grown vigorously in the last 5 years. She has studied in the UCLA horticulture program as well as completing a course in permaculture design. In addition to designing and maintaining vegetable gardens she has written for Dwell magazine, spoken at the Dwell on Design conference three years running and has expanded her design work to include native, and low-water landscapes. She is also developing a web-series linking homegrown vegetables with innovative chefs. If she were a vegetable she would be an eggplant.