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Spike Carlsen

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Spike Carlsen (spikecarlsen.com) has been writing about the world around us for the past 25 years. His first book, "A Splintered History of Wood: Belt Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers and Baseball Bats," was selected as a NPR "Best Book of the Year for Gift Giving" and became Amazon's #1 "Mover and Shaker." He has written numerous other books on self-sufficiency and woodworking as well as "Cabin Lesson" - a construction memoir. His latest book, "A Walk Around the Block: Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff you see Every day (but...

Tara Nolan

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Tara Nolan is a garden writer, author, editor and speaker. She is a co-founder of the award-winning gardening website Savvy Gardening (savvygardening.com) . Her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, CBC Life and Garden Making. Her first book, the best-selling Raised Bed Revolution: Build it, Fill it, Plant it... Garden Anywhere!, was published by Cool Springs Press in 2016. Tara contributed a chapter to Gardening Complete, released in 2018. Tara was also the award-winning web editor of Canadian Gardening magazine's website for six years and appeared as a gardening expert on WNED Buffalo's...