About Teresa Woodard
Teresa Woodard is a writer and field editor for regional and national consumer magazines and their digital outlets. She is contributing garden editor at Midwest Living magazine, and a Timber Press author of Garden to the Max (March 2025), co-author of American Roots: Reimagining Our Home Gardens (2022) and a another garden book (2026). If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. -- Martin Luther Over the past 15 years, she's contributed to Midwest Living, Columbus Monthly, Better Homes & Gardens, Country Gardens, Chicago Tribune, Living the Country Life, Ohio Magazine and Edible Columbus. She was awarded the 2016 Gold Award for Magazine Writing by GWA: The Association of Garden Communicators for her story, "Honey Harvest," for Country Gardens Magazine (Fall 2015) and the 2018 Silver Award for Magazine Writing for "A Cut Above" for Country Gardens Magazine and the 2019 Silver Award for Magazine Writing for "Harvesting Hope" for Ohio Magazine. She is an advisor with America in Bloom, a national competition in which communities compete in the areas of floral displays, landscaped areas, urban forestry, environmental awareness, heritage preservation, overall impression and community involvement. She volunteers and is a past board president of Highland Youth Garden, one of the country's top community youth gardens serving 350 youth in an urban food desert near downtown Columbus. |
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She is a graduate of Indiana University's Ernie Pyle School of Journalism where she studied feature writing, editing and photography. She is a member of Garden Writers Association and graduate of The Ohio State University Extension Master Gardeners' training program and was named Outstanding Master Gardener at the 2015 state conference. She served as the editor of the Ohio Master Gardener Volunteer Training Manual published in 2017. Prior to freelance writing, she gained 12 years' experience in public relations and marketing, including account management for an award-winning PR firm, marketing for the North American operations of an international packaging company, and adjunct faculty for PR and marketing courses for a community college.
Beyond writing and producing feature stories, Teresa enjoys gardening in her backyard, hiking with her German short-haired pointer and discovering new garden destinations.
Beyond writing and producing feature stories, Teresa enjoys gardening in her backyard, hiking with her German short-haired pointer and discovering new garden destinations.