Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a botanist, medical biochemist, and self-defined "renegade scientist" who uniquely blends ethnobotany, horticulture, spirituality, and alternative medicine to promote better stewardship of the natural world.
Rooted in Gaelic storytelling traditions from her Irish childhood, she is both a precise and poetic writer.
Her books include The Global Forest, Arboretum America, Arboretum Borealis, A Garden for Life, and The Sweetness of a Simple Life.
In 2010, she became a Wings Worldquest Fellow, and The Utne Reader named her a Visionary in 2011.
She currently lives in Ontario, Canada, surrounded by a research garden of rare and endangered species.
