Mat Pember is the founder and creative director of Melbourne's The Little Veggie Patch Co, a business established a decade ago specialising in the design, installation and maintenance of chemical-free vegetable gardens for urban dwellers. As well as writing books (he has co-written six best-selling Little Veggie Patch Co. books), he is a regular contributor to Gourmet Traveller and The Herald Sun . Root to Bloom is his seventh book. After a 15 year career in interior design, Jocelyn Cross took a step back to begin what would become Petite Ingredient, a now leading supplier of organic edible flowers and leaves to the best chefs in Asia and Australia. With a life-long penchant for floristry and passion for cooking and design, growing edible flowers was in retrospect a surprising but obvious career transition. She is now director, general manager, gardener, innovator, researcher and team leader at Petite Ingredient, based in Melbourne's Yarra Valley. Root to Bloom is her first book.

team leader at Petite Ingredient, based in Melbourne's Yarra Valley. Root to Bloom is her first book.team leader at Petite Ingredient, based in Melbourne's Yarra Valley. Root to Bloom is her first book.team leader at Petite Ingredient, based in Melbourne's Yarra Valley. Root to Bloom is her first book.