Pamela Baxter has been exploring the outdoors since she was a child growing up in Connecticut, with Sleeping Giant State Park practically in her backyard. Not surprisingly, she instinctively turns to the natural world for inspiration. She particularly enjoys sharing the beauty and wisdom of nature, looking beyond the surface of what we can see and touch.

For 24 years Pamela was the editor of the award-winning newsletter of the Valley Forge Audubon Society. She has also contributed articles to the American Horticultural Society's "American Gardener" magazine and to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Since 1999 she has been inspiring fellow gardeners through a weekly column in the regional newspapers in southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She has worked with children since she signed on as a den leader for her son's Scout group in 1990, and recently retired from a nineteen-year career as a religious educator in a Unitarian Universalist congregation.

A cellist, Pamela teaches privately and performs with a local orchestra and a string quartet. She also enjoys exploring our national parks, hiking, and cooking with the vegetables that come out of her organic garden in Kimberton, Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband Charlie.