Susan Carpenter is the Native Plant Garden curator and gardener at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum. She works with students and community volunteers to manage and monitor a 4-acre garden representing the plant communities of southern Wisconsin. She also leads a conservation project that involves students and the public in documenting and studying native bumble bees, including the endangered rusty-patched bumble bee, Bombus affinis. A graduate of Stanford University, Susan earned her MS in Botany and MS in Science Education at UW–Madison.

Michael Hansen is the Land Care Manager at the UW-Madison Arboretum where he oversees field work on 1700 acres, including invasive species management and the prescribed fire program. His career in conservation has spanned 20 years across several states and one Canadian province, with a primary focus on prairie and savanna ecology and restoration. He has a B.S. in Natural Resource Management from Ball State University and a M.S. in Plant Biology from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.

Darrel Morrison, FASLA, is a long-time advocate of designing landscapes with Native Plant communities as inspiration, with a special interest in tallgrass prairies. He taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 1969-83, and at the University of Georgia 1983-2005. From 2005 until 2015, he lived and worked in the New York City area, and designed landscapes based on Native Plant communities at the New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Storm King Art Center. Darrel is the recipient of the Scott Medal and Award for 2021, presented by Swarthmore College for “outstanding national contributions to the science and art of gardening.” He currently lives in Madison,

Wisconsin.

Larry Weaner, FAPLD, president and founder of Larry Weaner Landscape Associates, established New Directions in the American Landscape in 1990. He is nationally recognized for combining expertise in horticulture, landscape design, and ecological restoration. His design and restoration work spans more than twenty US states and the UK, and has been profiled in national publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Garden Design, American Gardener, Wildflower Magazine, and ASLA’s “The Dirt” blog. Larry has presented at American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) annual and state chapter meetings, Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) events, and many others. His book, Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change (2016) received an American Horticultural Society Book Award in 2017. In 2021 he received the AHS Landscape Design Award and the APLD Award of Distinction.

Matthew Partain is the landscape superintendent at Glenstone, a contemporary art museum in Potomac, MD, near Washington, DC. He oversees a team of grounds specialists who maintain nearly 300 acres, with a focus on organic and developing native landscapes. Previous work experiences include Berea College, KY, The Greenbrier, WV, The Biltmore Company, NC and Walt Disney World, FL.

Paul Tukey is an award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker, HGTV host, consultant and motivational public speaker who is internationally recognized as a pioneering leader in sustainable landscaping. Now serving as the Director of Environmental Stewardship for the Glenstone Museum in Potomac., Md., Paul is helping to create a “living classroom” on the all-organic 300-acre site that includes native meadows, a five-acre organic lawn, restored streams and tributaries, forests and more than 13,000 newly planted native trees.

Larry Weaner, FAPLD, president and founder of Larry Weaner Landscape Associates, established New Directions in the American Landscape in 1990. He is nationally recognized for combining expertise in horticulture, landscape design, and ecological restoration. His design and restoration work spans more than twenty US states and the UK, and has been profiled in national publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Garden Design, American Gardener, Wildflower Magazine, and ASLA’s “The Dirt” blog. Larry has presented at American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) annual and state chapter meetings, Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) events, and many others. His book, Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change (2016) received an American Horticultural Society Book Award in 2017. In 2021 he received the AHS Landscape Design Award and the APLD Award of Distinction.