Don Boekelheide is the Carolina Piedmont correspondent and variety tester for Rodale's Organic Gardening Magazine, and Community Gardening Director for Charlotte's Urban Ministry Center. He teaches popular hands-on classes in organic and ecological gardening for CPCC, held in the community garden at Reedy Creek Park near UNCC (where he is an active community gardener himself). Don served as a Peace Corps agriculture volunteer in Togo, West Africa, helped create Charlotte's home composting and Master Composter programs, and earned his MS in Agriculture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He blogs about gardening, urban ecology, and social justice at http://urbanministrygarden.wordpress.com