WILLI GALLOWAY is an award-winning radio commentator and writer. Willi began her career at Organic Gardening magazine, where she worked her way up from editorial intern to West Coast Editor. While living in Seattle she became an active participant in the urban agriculture movement, earning her Master Gardener certification and serving for six years on the board of directors of Seattle Tilth (now called Tilth Alliance)—a nationally recognized nonprofit that teaches people to cultivate a healthy urban environment and community by growing organic food. This work introduced her to hundreds of other urban gardeners, and like many of them, she has grown food in untraditional places, including on the roof of an apartment building, at the Interbay P-Patch (an acclaimed community garden right in the middle of Seattle), and in the sunny front yard of her home.

Willi writes about kitchen gardening and seasonal cooking and has taught joint gardening and cooking classes around the Pacific Northwest, including teaching stints with James Beard Award–winning chef Matthew Dillon at the Corson Building in Seattle. She has also hosted an online garden-to-table cooking show, GROW. COOK. EAT., with her husband, Jonathan, and she served as the vegetable gardening expert on Seattle’s NPR station, KUOW, for eight years. Her garden has been featured in Sunset magazine and she has written for Vegetarian Times and Apartment Therapy. Willi currently lives and gardens in Portland, Oregon.