As manager of the Greenhouse Education and Research Complex at Temple University Ambler, Benjamin Snyder oversees the use and care of various educational horticulture features, including a tropical greenhouse collection, organic food production garden and seasonal outdoor displays. His primary interests focus on controlled environment horticulture, including plant production and ex situ plant conservation in an educational setting. 

Andrew Mahaffie is a visual artist from Washington DC, currently living and working in Philadelphia PA.  Andrew graduated with a BFA in Glass from Tulane University and has since worked in the glass community up and down the east coast, including spending time at STARworks Center for Creative Enterprises, and Penland School of Craft.  Andrew's work takes a playful and inquisitive approach to glassmaking exploring different traditional and modern techniques of blowing, sculpting, casting, and coldworking.

lydon frank lettuce is an artist, writer, and all-around goon from rural Pennsylvania. They plant poems in your garden and dig diagrams into the sand. They wrestle with the knotted garden hose of language and press your semantic atiation up against the wall. They hold an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Parsons, the New School. They are always speaking frankly.