WThomas Affleck was a Scottish-American nurseryman, almanac editor, and agrarian writer and Southern planter. He published the Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation and Garden Calendar from 1851 to 1861.
WWill Allen is an American urban farmer based in Milwaukee and a retired professional basketball player.
WWendell Erdman Berry is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berry was named the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. On January 28, 2015, he became the first living writer to be inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.
WLester Russel Brown is a United States environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and former president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C. BBC Radio commentator Peter Day referred to him as "one of the great pioneer environmentalists."
WWes Jackson co-founded the Land Institute with Dana Jackson. He is also a member of the World Future Council.
WOrange Judd was an American agricultural chemist, editor, and publisher.
WBradford Knapp was the President of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now known as Auburn University from 1928 to 1933.
WRichard "Dick" Manning is an environmental author and journalist, with particular interest in the history and future of the American prairie, agriculture and poverty.
WIda Elizabeth Brandon Mathis (1857–1925) was a farmer and businesswoman who advocated for methods that would improve conditions for Southern farmers, including crop diversification and rotation and better methods of financing for small farmers. She is credited with reducing agricultural poverty in Alabama and diminishing the state's dependence on imported food.
WHoward Symmes Russell (1887–1980) was an American author, gardener, and politician.
WJoel F. Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author.
WCyril Adelbert Stebbins (1880–1953) was an American educator involved with nature and agricultural education. His publications in the early twentieth century were influential in promoting gardening in children's education, and he wrote much of the curriculum for the United States School Garden Army, a federal victory garden project during World War I. He wrote several publications with Ernest Brown Babcock and published several field guides to birds with his son Robert C. Stebbins.
WTheodore Brainard Terry was an American farmer, journalist and agricultural writer.