About
Seeds, beds, weather, and the years they take.
Wintergreen Quarterly is an independent online magazine founded in 2025 to do one thing: long-form, careful reporting on the parts of life that move too slowly to make the daily wire feeds.
Wintergreen Quarterly is a slow-gardening editorial for people who keep small plots, save their own seed, and measure their work by the season rather than the weekend.
The magazine is run by a small editorial collective, the Wintergreen Editorial Trust, constituted as a non-profit publisher. Decisions about coverage, accuracy, and editorial direction are taken independently of any commercial interest. We do not run display advertising.
We publish under five named contributors who together edit and write the magazine. You can read about each on the contributor pages. Pieces are commissioned, reported, edited, fact-checked, and published in roughly four-week cycles.
We hold ourselves to three standards. Our editorial policy, our style guide, our ethics statement.
Write to us at editor@wintergreenquarterly.co.
The masthead
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Rowena Bell trained at the RHS Garden Wisley and has kept her own kitchen garden in Devon for twenty-eight years. She edits Wintergreen Quarterly.
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Tristan Aoki grows about eighty herb varieties on a small property in southern Kyoto and edits Wintergreen's Herbs section.
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Sage Marchetti has saved her own tomato and bean seed for nineteen years and runs the Hampshire Seed Library. She edits Wintergreen's Seeds section.
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Eloise Vinter writes about garden tools and the small machinery of growing. She has reviewed every spade on the British market.
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Octavia Bryne is an entomologist who worked on integrated pest management in commercial orchards for fourteen years before turning to the home garden.