Erika Ehmsen is Sunset's copy chief and a member of the One-Block project's Team Wine. She got married at a Sonoma Valley winery, and she most covets Cabernets from Napa Valley's Calistoga region. Erika grew up reading Sunset in Southern California but made a fast break for San Francisco after college near Chicago and a couple of stints in London (all largely driven by her passion for music and quality concert venues). At her tiny city house, Erika is a container gardener--spring bulbs are her favorites, but she's started growing organic lettuces and herbs in pots. Her black Lab helps her dig out old plants, and her preschooler daughter helps her put in new ones.

Elizabeth Jardina is a friend to chickens and a former vegetarian. Yes, she thinks you can be both. As a researcher at Sunset, she's interested in almost everything, including, but not limited to: tomatoes, chickens, sweet peas, solving knotty problems, factual accuracy, and caramels made with fleur de sel. A native Texan, she now lives in San Mateo in Merv Griffin's childhood home.

Johanna Silver never said the word, "agriculture" out loud until she was 21, traveled the world, and saw how most people work. She now says it several times a week, almost always proceeded by the word, "sustainable." She has grown food in her hometown of Denver, CO and Marin County, CA. While she humors herself with a few chard plants in pots outside of her San Francisco flat, she relishes most the time she spends growing (edibles and ornamentals) and learning in the Sunset Test Garden.

Margaret Sloan grew up not far from Sunset magazine, and learned to garden from the Sunset Western Garden Book, which ushered in a career in horticulture. She then moved to tropical Mexico and for 3 years battled an amazing range of insects wishing to live inside her house. Now a production coordinator for Sunset, Margaret researches story information, squares up the page designs, and makes sure all the photos print correctly. Blogging for Team Bee is a fun extracurricular project. When not thinking about bees or the magazine, Margaret is typically at home painting or playing music.

Margo True is the food editor at Sunset Magazine, and nothing makes her happier than exploring the world of food—on the farm, in the kitchen, and all points in between and beyond. Before Sunset, she was executive editor at Saveur magazine, and before that, a senior editor and writer at Gourmet. Margo grew up in six different countries and loves the way that food expresses culture and place. She is perpetually eager to try odd new ingredients, and there isn't much she won't eat if it's well prepared—except Big Red cola, sea cucumbers, or gloppy sweet-potato Thanskgiving casseroles with marsmallows on top. As for food trends, Margo picks up on the ones that have both spark and staying power. Her biggest wish right now is to have a little Jersey cow.