Jannetta LaMort authored the course Stepping Stones to Organic Gardening, and she currently mentors the course. She has been gradening organically for many years, has published magazine articles on the subject, and she is currently involved with community garden and school programs advocating organic gardening.

Jannetta resides in New Jersey and has many interests which include her "day job" in interactive marketing, freelance graphic and web design, writing courses for VU, occasional folk dancing, Latin studies, and reading the classics mixed with a good mystery. She says she was raised in Northern California, where she spent most of her youth bent over rows of beans and squash in the hot sun thanks to her father's love of gardening. She inherited her interest in organic gardening from her mother's insistence on meddling with his planting ideas!