Executive Digital Editor and Master Gardener
Catherine Boeckmann is the Executive Digital Editor of Almanac.com and a Purdue University Extension Master Gardener. She loves helping readers find practical, trustworthy answers—whether they’re figuring out when to plant tomatoes, identifying a backyard bird, wondering what they’re seeing in the night sky, or planning around the seasons.
Catherine works with gardeners, meteorologists, astronomers, and other experts to turn specialized knowledge into useful information that anyone can understand and put to work. She has written extensively about plants, gardening, and the natural world and has helped create many of the articles, newsletters, maps, and interactive tools readers use across Almanac.com.
A native of Indiana, Catherine has always loved the outdoors and nature’s rhythms. She is especially interested in organic gardening, native plants, sustainable living, and creating gardens that support birds and other wildlife. She volunteers with her neighborhood community garden, which grows produce for local food pantries and refugee communities, and has developed plant guides and taught beginner gardening workshops.
