Susan Heeger

Susan Heeger

...a California native and graduate of Harvard University, is a long-time magazine and newspaper feature writer with a specialty in garden, design, home, lifestyle, and food stories. A contributing editor for Garden Design and former staff writer for Martha Stewart Living, she also co-wrote (with Jimmy Williams) From Seed to Skillet, a guide to edible gardening and cooking from the garden, published by Chronicle Books, and The Gardens of California, published by Clarkson Potter. She has written extensively on vegetable gardening for publications ranging from The Los Angeles Times Magazine to This Old House, and covered entertaining, food, landscape, and interior design for others such as Martha Stewart Living, Coastal Living, Country Living, and Cooking Light.

She has two new books coming out in Spring, 2013. The first, Hand-Crafted Candy Bars: From-Scratch, All-Natural, Gloriously Grown-Up Confections, co-written with chocolatier and pastry chef Susie Norris, will be published by Chronicle Books. The second, Landprints: The Landscape Designs of Bernard Trainor, will appear in April, 2013, from Princeton Architectural Press.

Visit her website with Jimmy Williams--www.fromseedtoskillet.com--and view their video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb_Sr1MZfOQ

Have fun in your house, your life and your garden!!!

[Author photo by Lisa Romerein]