About Dr. Sue Stuart-Smith
Sue Stuart-Smith is a prominent psychiatrist and psychotherapist who graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in English Literature before going on to train as a doctor. She worked in the National Health Service for many years, becoming the lead clinician for psychotherapy in Hertfordshire. She currently works for DocHealth, a service that helps doctors suffering from stress and burnout. She is married to celebrated garden designer, Tom Stuart-Smith. Over thirty years together, they have created the wonderful Barn Garden in Hertfordshire. Published in 2020, her book, The Well-Gardened Mind became a Sunday Times bestseller and the Times and Sunday Times book of the year. Since its release, her book has been translated into eighteen languages. Sue and Tom founded a not-for-profit initiative called The Serge Hill Project for Gardening, Creativity and Health that incorporates a Plant Library and is based in an old orchard at their home in Hertfordshire.
About Kelly Korte
Kelly Korte is the Horticulture Volunteer Trainer and Manager at Newfields and a homegrown Midwesterner. By the age of twelve, he was anxious to get to work and started his career as the full-time gardener for the town doctor. He went on to learn several trades and by the age of twenty-five, he embarked on his academic journey at the University of Illinois that helped him discover his love of science. Kelly ultimately found his way to horticulture because of the diversity of classes it allowed him to explore. After college, he spent 19 years working for the green industry in central Texas focusing on water, integrated pest management, and personnel management. This is where his journey through trauma recovery began, both personally and through volunteerism. Kelly embarked on the work needed to address his own developmental trauma and sought opportunities to help veterans affected by PTSD as part of his healing journey with his father. In 2019, he returned to the Midwest and joined the Newfields team where he is able to apply all that he has learned over the years to his position in community development. Most recently, Kelly has received his Certificate in Therapeutic Horticulture from North Carolina State University, which he hopes will further his personal mission to create space where people have the opportunity to thrive.