Samantha Johnson Title: Gardening Writer Location: Phelps, Wisconsin Expertise: Gardening, vegetable gardening, pets, horses, farm life Samantha Johnson is an award-winning writer with over 20 years of gardening experience and an unwavering love of heirloom vegetables.Highlights:Author or co-author of nearly two dozen books, including Vegetable Gardening for Beginners and Garden DIY: 25 Fun-to-Make Projects for an Attractive and Productive GardenMagazine writer for 15 years, specializing in gardening and pets, with published national magazine credits that include Northern Gardener, Mother Earth Living, Heirloom Gardener, American Spirit, AcreageLife, American Gardener, Hobby Farms, Hobby Farm Home, American Spirit, American Profile, Young Rider, Horse Illustrated, and othersProofreader of gardening books for Cool Springs Press for 13 years and counting Experience Samantha Johnson is an author, proofreader, garden writer, and farm girl. Her work appears regularly in national magazines and she's a long-time magazine columnist. She's the author or co-author of nearly two dozen books on rural living, horses, gardening, beekeeping, and pets published by Quarto, Scholastic, and other publishers.Samantha enjoys growing vegetables of all kinds, but she has a special love for heirloom varieties and believes strongly in the importance of preserving and protecting these historic varieties for the future. She particularly loves growing tomatoes, beans, and squash.Aside from gardening and writing about gardening, Samantha enjoys finding typographical errors as a proofreader, and she has a not-so-secret love of email marketing. She's a certified horse show judge and has judged horse shows from coast to coast. She lives on a former dairy farm where they make hay when the sun shines. About Martha Stewart Martha Stewart, a Dotdash Meredith Brand, teaches and inspires over 7 million readers a month with tested-until-perfected recipes, elevated home and entertaining ideas, and creative DIY projects. Our content is written by experienced journalists and fact checked for accuracy. Learn more about us and our editorial guidelines.