Peter V. Fossel

Peter V. Fossel has been an organic grower for 25 years, raising vegetables, herbs, cut flowers, and nursery plants. He has written numerous magazine articles on farming and gardening, including for the magazine for the nation's top rural-agriculture retailer, Tractor Supply Company's monthly Out Here. He is currently the gardens manager at The Hermitage, home of the late President Andrew Jackson near Nashville, Tennessee.Peter Fossel has farmed for thirty years, organically for twenty. He was editor of Country Journal magazine for years and has written for numerous other magazines, including Horticulture, Organic Gardening, American Heritage, and the Tractor Supply quarterly journal, Out Here. He writes the blog www.lifegrower.org, and farms organically at Swan River Farm in Dennis Port, Massachusetts.