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Jeff Lowenfels

Jeff Lowenfels is the Cal Ripkin of garden columnists. His weekly column has run in the Anchorage Daily News for over 27 years, never missing a single week. Jeff also hosts a weekly garden radio show. He hosted Alaska public television's most popular show, Alaska Gardens with Jeff Lowenfels. The show was so popular, at one point it ran four times a week. Jeff grew up working on his father's farm in Scarsdale, New York. He helped plant, weed, and mow, and picked fruits, flowers, and vegetables on eight 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 national 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 honor 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.

Looking for a speaker for your upcoming event? View Jeff Lowenfels's profile at the Timber Press speakers bureau.

 

Books by Jeff Lowenfels

Teaming with Microbes

A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web

By Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis

196 pp. , hardcover

$24.95  £17.99

 

Upcoming Jeff Lowenfels events

The Great Pumpkin Commonwealth and International Giant Vegetable Growers Convention
March 14–16, 2009

Sheraton Fallsview Hotel, Niagara Falls, Ontario

Jeff Lowenfels will give a seminar on the subject of his book, Teaming with Microbes.

Contact: Lisa Irwin 705-458-1533 lirwin@bmts.com

Cost: $100

Canada Blooms
March 18–22, 2009

Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 777 Lawrence Ave., Toronto, Ontario

Jeff Lowenfels will speak on the subject of his book, Teaming with Microbes.

Contact: Gerry Ginsberg 416-447-8655 gerry.ginsberg@canadablooms.com

Cost: $18

International Master Gardener Conference
March 22–26, 2009

Alexis Park Resort Hotel, 375 E Harmon Ave., Las Vegas, Nevada

Jeff Lowenfels will speak on the subject of his book, Teaming with Microbes.

Contact: Ann Edmunds 702-257-5587 edmundsa@unce.unr.edu

Jeff Lowenfels with the Master Gardeners' Association
May 21, 2009  8 a.m.–4 p.m.

Manchester Community College, Manchester, Connecticut

Lowenfels will lead a workshop on the subject of his book, Teaming with Microbes.

Contact: Marjorie Bingham 860-678-9575 marjbin@yahoo.com