Johnson County Home and Garden ShowA native of Miami, Florida and the first generation of her Cuban family to
be born in the United States, Sabrina began her career by working in her mother's decorating business. That experience sparked a passion for design and honed a knack for creating beautiful spaces in any budget range. She cut her teeth in video as a host for series on TLC and MTV, and a web-based series on Yahoo!, in which she interviewed top recording artists and celebrities. She's ridden a crest of popularity from those initial shows, due in large part to her upbeat, high energy approach, and her ability to connect on a personal level with a wide range of show guests. Her talent at engaging on the personal level is complemented by impressive professional credentials. In addition to her award winning TV experience, Sabrina studied design at UCLA, and is a LEED-accredited designer.
Along with her hosting and design duties on "Get it Sold", Sabrina has enjoyed extensive exposure across the entire HGTV channel, guest hosting and appearing on various shows and specials, including "White House Christmas",
"HGTV's Green Home", "Bang For Your Buck", "House Hunters", "Showdown",
"Buying & Selling Secrets", and "Real Estate Intervention". Sabrina has been featured in Time Magazine, USA Today, People En Espanol, Esquire and Latina Magazine. Currently living in Washington, D.C. Sabrina tirelessly juggles designing, filming her HGTV show and treating friends and family to her second passion, cooking.
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Raised in northern Indiana, Chef Linda has loved to cook most of her
life and learned at the feet of her southern grandmother. And since she's been creating masterpieces in the kitchen since childhood, she decided to start cooking "professionally" in 2001. Prior to becoming a professional cook Chef Linda held many impressive management positions in the retail industry and those have served her well in her current life as a cook. She's savvy, smart and gets the professional world and she's applied all that knowledge to further her cooking career. But above all else, Chef Linda loves to cook and is a creative wiz in the kitchen.
Chef Linda has provided personal chef services for many years and is a member of the United States Personal Chef Association. She has a weekly segment Saturday mornings on WDAF-TV appearing as the "Price Chopper Chef". She has also contributed food columns for The Kansan. In addition to providing services to individuals and groups in culinary instruction, Chef Linda has produced radio and television spots highlighting the benefits of eating healthy and to share great recipe ideas. Whether it's on WDAF-TV or talking with a friend at the grocery store, Chef Linda loves to share her thoughts and ideas about food, recipes and entertaining. For more of Chef Linda's recipes go to www.mypricechopper.com.
For Chef Linda's speaking schedule click here.
Patricia Lanza is a book author, free-lance writer and lecturer with
twenty years experience in garden communication. She has appeared on HGTV, QVC, Tennessee Public Television and at Disney's Epcot.
Lanza'a Lasagna Gardening three-book series, published by Rodale Press, has sold a million copies world-wide. Followers of Lanza's lasagna gardening can Google Lanza or her books and will find her at Oprah.com and hundreds of related websites.
Pat is a real gardener who has fed her seven children from her vegetable gardens and provided herself with a living from her flower gardens and whose communication career began with a garden formula that helped her create great garden soil without the hard work of traditional methods.
Pat was discovered by a member of a garden club looking for a speaker and an accidental meeting with a newspaper publisher. What Pat had to say at those first lectures helped her book almost forty speaking engagements the next year, to self-publish a small book (to sell at her lectures) and go on to a triple-crown contract with legendary publisher Rodale Press.
During the following eight years Pat wrote a weekly column, for twenty thousand readers, for the newspaper publisher she met in the garden, and hosted her own radio program. At the same time Pat became a features editor for a daily with seven hundred and fifty thousand readers.
Pat is tireless in her quest to convert traditional gardeners to her layering method with her lectures and books: How to Create Wonderful Gardens,
Lasagna Gardening, No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding!,
Lasagna Gardening for Small Spaces, Lasagna Gardening with Herbs
My Grandmother's Aprons & My Garden Doctor (due out in Jan. 2010)
For more information or to book a lecture contact Pat at the address above.
For Pat's speaking schedule click here.
In horticulture Dave Wood is the real thing. His father, William Wood, was an English Master Gardener and built public gardens in Cedar Rapids, IO. Dave followed in his footsteps. After graduation from Michigan State University he embarked on a career as a horticulturist for Ford Motor Co where, over 32 years, he managed the grounds, helped build an arboretum and oversaw the gardens at the Henry Ford Estate.
During that time Dave was also in charge of indoor plants at World Headquarters and authored his first book: All About Houseplants, published in Overland Park, KS. Dave also had his own radio show, WKAR Detroit, and has many years of experience giving lectures on all phases of plants and growing. A favorite topic is roof gardens.
After retirement, with the third generation of gardeners at the helm, Tim Wood Spring Meadows Nursery, Dave began to write and publish children's books including a Christmas book The Little House on Buchanan Street, based on a real house in Spring Lake, Michigan.
David has always been interested in the education of children and their introduction into the world of plants. He invented a kid-friendly character named Botany Boy to be his teaching side-kick. Botany Boy has become a favorite side-bar in a new series of books that take place in botanical gardens around the country. In the new books animals live in arboretums and have adventures that keep kids on the edge of their seats.
"Cattlea and Catopsis, The Adventures of a Lost Kitten" takes place in Selby Gardens in Sarasota, Florida. Mr. Wood and Botany Boy are there
as three cats take you through the gardens and tell of being lost, afraid and finally found.
David's newest book, "The Kingswood Bunnies", due out in December 2009, takes place in Kingswood Center Mansfield, Ohio and tells the story of a family of bunnies and how they live their lives surrounded by gardeners working in vegetable and flower gardens and visitors to the gardens.
For David's speaking schedule click here.
If you have purchased flowering plants from a garden center, there is a good chance they were Proven Winners, the leading brand of high-quality flowering plants in North America. The goals of the company are to introduce the best, most unique, high-performing plants and produce them under the highest-quality standards to market the plants innovatively. Proven Winners plants are unsurpassed in terms of flowering, growth habit, disease resistance and garden performance. One of the goals of Proven Winners is introducing new and exciting plants. This can mean a genera previously unknown to most gardeners, such as Diamond Frost Euphorbia or it can be a new performance breakthrough in an old garden standby. For example, Snow Princess Alyssum, which blooms all Summer. Kerry Meyer, a project manager for Proven Winners, will speak about new varieties and plant variety conception all three days of the Show.
Kerry lives and gardens in central Missouri on 10 acres, half of which
is a rocky wooded hillside. She and her husband bought their house in 2005. They now live mere miles from the small family farm where she grew up, near her hometown of around 300. Both of her grandmothers and her mother loved flowers and passed this passion on to her. She expects her garden to continue to grow as she has time to add to and improve existing beds. Kerry has a BS in Horticulture from the University of Missouri and an MS in Horticultural Science with a minor in Plant Breeding from the University of Minnesota. After graduation she lived for 5 years on the Central Coast of California before returning to the Midwest.
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