Maureen Heffernan is the former executive director of the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay. Prior to that she served as education coordinator at the American Horticultural Society and as director of education and public programs at the Cleveland Botanical Garden. In addition to creating the horticultural society's Children's Garden Project at River Farm, she coordinated the creation of the Hershey Children's Garden and initiated the Cleveland Garden's Green Corps. Heffernan's previous publications include four Burpee gardening books and Hershey Children's Garden: A Place to Grow. Sh...