My gardening life began in 1965 on an eastern Kentucky hillside when my neighbors Mallie and Crit Jackson came over to my cabin with a mule and an apron full of seeds. After I moved to Vermont I worked as a gardening apprentice at Hill & Dale Farm in Putney where we grew vegetables, apples and raised beef.Ever since then, I've been involved in the world of gardening, food and farming - having been a commercial organic/biodynamic vegetable and fruit grower for ten years in Saxtons River.I was a garden and farm commentator on Vermont Public Radio for twenty years. During that time, I published The Green Mountain Farmer, a monthly Vermont newspaper dedicated to farm and food issues. I also coordinated the 3-acre 165 plot Tommy Thompson Community Garden in the Intervale in Burlington for 15 years.Currently, I teach gardening workshops to community gardeners in the Intervale and to interns at Heartbeet, a farm community in Hardwick for adults with disabilities.I love to tell stories and weave anecdotes as I did in my first books, The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening, The Woodchuck Returns to Gardening, and Lifting the Yoke - Local Solutions to America's Farm and Food Crisis. And I continue to follow the Woodchuck principles of It Depends, and If it's not one thing, it's another.-Ron Krupp
