Reeser Manley taught courses in horticulture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and at the University of Maine, Orono. For eight years, he wrote a weekly gardening column for the Bangor Daily News. Manley passed away in 2022.

Margorie Peronto has been a professor at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension for 26 years, teaching courses in fruit and vegetable gardening, ecological landscaping, and pruning. She oversees Down East Maine's Master Gardener Volunteers program promoting sustainable gardening and food security.