Bob Randall, PhD and Gary Edmondson

Teaches at Urban Harvest

Dr. Bob Randall is the author of Year Round Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers for Metro-Houston, 12th edition. He was one of eight Urban Harvest Cofounders in 1994, and retired in 2008 after 21 years heading Houston’s community gardening programs. Bob has been an avid gardener for 50 years. He has used permaculture for 30 years and became a certified permaculture designer in 1996. 

Gary Edmondson, the former Director of Education at Urban Harvest, has been assisting in the building of school and community gardens since 2001. Gary retired in 2016, as training coordinator with the non profit Plant It Forward Farms that works with setting up urban farms for Congolese refugees in the Houston area.