Jonathan P Sturm

Jonathan was born at a remarkably young age in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England on 9 April, 1951 and again in 1970 when he arrived in Tasmania. After finishing high school at Sunbury, Victoria, he briefly attended Latrobe University in 1969. However, the academic life did not appeal. For several years he made his living as an artist painting mainly landscapes and drawings of Tasmania’s old buildings.

In 1982 he and his wife-to-be purchased a small farm in the Huon Valley of southern Tasmania, and they began Tasmania’s first organic market garden. In the early 1990s Jonathan wrote a best-seller called Complete Organic Gardening (ISBN 978-0949089182). He was also one of the early bloggers in The Daynotes Gang with Jerry Pournelle, Robert Thompson, Bo Leuf and several other computer nerds.

These days Jonathan is semi-retired and runs a small publishing company called Ashwood Books.