Dani Baker is the owner of Cross Island Farm in New York. After spending long hours in her annual market garden, she turned to permaculture principals to help transform her property into a perennial edible food forest.

Ben Falk is one of the most prominent figures in the world of ecological design but he didn't always see that path as his future. At a young age, he was drawn toward acts of dramatic protest, like sleeping in trees. But eventually he had an epiphany: the best way to inspire change is not to yell at or shame people, but to show them a better way to live.