Cheryl Wilfong discovered gardening the same year she attended her first retreat at Insight Meditation Society in 1977. She has a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Antioch New England, with a concentration in Mindfulness and completed an internship with Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program. She became a Master Gardener in 1999. Cheryl graduated from the Community Dharma Leader program, sponsored by Spirit Rock Meditation Center and from the Integrated Study and Practice Program at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. She is currently studying a two-year curriculum with Matt Flickstein. Cheryl teaches at Vermont Insight Meditation Center and spends as much time in the garden as she can. Cheryl is also the author of Following the Nez Perce Trail: A Guide to the Nee-Me-Poo National Historic Trail with eye-witness accounts, 2nd edition.