Leslie Bennett

Leslie Bennett is the owner of Pine House Edible Gardens and coauthor of Garden Wonderland and The Beautiful Edible Garden. She is a winner of the American Horticultural Society’s Landscape Design Award, has been named to the Elle Decor A-List of top designers, and is the founder of Black Sanctuary Gardens. Leslie and the Pine House team's garden design work has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, Martha Stewart Living, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, Sunset, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Gardenista, and more. Leslie holds degrees from Harvard University, Columbia Law School, and the University College London in the fields of environmental justice, land use law, and cultural property and preservation. She lives and gardens in Oakland, California with her two children.