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Beverly Yates
Beverly supports our wholesale sales team, building strong relationships with independent garden retailers, distributors and marketing partners. Her background as a Colorado Master Gardener and permaculture design instructor is a big asset!
Beverly Yates
Beverly supports our wholesale sales team, building strong relationships with independent garden retailers, distributors and marketing partners. Her background as a Colorado Master Gardener and permaculture design instructor is a big asset!

Brian Montgomery
Brian is responsible for all sales to our wholesale garden center and nursery customers, and he manages our in house sales staff to make sure our sales processes are efficient and customer serving.
Brian Montgomery
Brian is responsible for all sales to our wholesale garden center and nursery customers, and he manages our in house sales staff to make sure our sales processes are efficient and customer serving.

Renee Shepherd
Renee Shepherd is widely regarded as a pioneering innovator in introducing international vegetables, flowers and herbs to home gardeners and gourmet restaurants. She founded Shepherd's Garden Seeds in 1985 (later selling the company) and established Renee's Garden to do what...
Renee Shepherd
Renee Shepherd is widely regarded as a pioneering innovator in introducing international vegetables, flowers and herbs to home gardeners and gourmet restaurants. She founded Shepherd's Garden Seeds in 1985 (later selling the company) and established Renee's Garden to do what...

Our Warehouse Crew
The hardworking team that packs, fills and ships orders everyday!
Our Warehouse Crew
The hardworking team that packs, fills and ships orders everyday!

Mimi Osborne
Mimi is a freelance botanical illustrator & talented watercolor & mixed media artist in San Francisco. She creates the watercolor variety portraits on the front of Renee’s Garden packets from the photos we take of them in the trial garden.Read...
Mimi Osborne
Mimi is a freelance botanical illustrator & talented watercolor & mixed media artist in San Francisco. She creates the watercolor variety portraits on the front of Renee’s Garden packets from the photos we take of them in the trial garden.Read...

Karen Bailey
Karen is a plein-air and mixed media painter, musician and gardener. She is a signed, accomplished and skilled photographer. She takes photos of both new & existing varieties for our website & for our packet artist Mimi to paint from...
Karen Bailey
Karen is a plein-air and mixed media painter, musician and gardener. She is a signed, accomplished and skilled photographer. She takes photos of both new & existing varieties for our website & for our packet artist Mimi to paint from...

Beth Benjamin
Beth worked with Renee back in her mail order days & was her original partner in starting Renee’s Garden. Beth shares both a lifetime of gardening expertise & expert knowledge of all our varieties, responding to customer questions and comments...
Beth Benjamin
Beth worked with Renee back in her mail order days & was her original partner in starting Renee’s Garden. Beth shares both a lifetime of gardening expertise & expert knowledge of all our varieties, responding to customer questions and comments...

Lindsay Del Carlo
Lindsay’s gardening & propagation background serve her well in managing our N. Ca. organic trial garden, growing about 325 varieties each season. She takes photos for social media, is our YouTube host, & contributes the monthly “Trial Garden” column in...
Lindsay Del Carlo
Lindsay’s gardening & propagation background serve her well in managing our N. Ca. organic trial garden, growing about 325 varieties each season. She takes photos for social media, is our YouTube host, & contributes the monthly “Trial Garden” column in...

Cheri Brownfield
Cheri expertly does all our bookkeeping & general accounting. She brings her extensive experience in working with small and medium-size businesses to work closely with customers & carefully keep our financial house in order.
Cheri Brownfield
Cheri expertly does all our bookkeeping & general accounting. She brings her extensive experience in working with small and medium-size businesses to work closely with customers & carefully keep our financial house in order.

Sarah Renfro
Sarah maintains the smooth operation of our business, spearheads communication between our warehouse & sales offices, coordinates budgeting and planning processes & generally makes sure our business is running smoothly and efficiently. Sarah is Renee’s niece.
Sarah Renfro
Sarah maintains the smooth operation of our business, spearheads communication between our warehouse & sales offices, coordinates budgeting and planning processes & generally makes sure our business is running smoothly and efficiently. Sarah is Renee’s niece.