Meet Our Editors & Staff

Sherin Pierce

Sherin Pierce is the Publisher of The Old Farmer’s Almanac. She leads a team responsible for the long-term strategic planning of the Almanac brand, including new product development, oversight of editorial, and management of the book’s finances and ancillary businesses. She also oversees the Almanac’s robust promotional and marketing activities, including the Almanac’s expansive social media channels. 

Sherin has often been recognized in the industry for her forward-thinking leadership, including being named one of FOLIO’s Top Women in Media. She holds two master’s degrees: an MA in English Literature and an MBA in Marketing and International Business. 

Sherin lives in Dublin, New Hampshire, with one of her two sons and a cat named Charlie Pierce. She enjoys spending time outdoors, particularly taking long rides on her bike or walks around her neighborhood. She also enjoys traveling internationally and spending time with family and friends. 

Carol Connare

Carol Connare is Editor-in-Chief of The Old Farmer’s Almanac—only the 14th editor (and second female) since its founding in 1792! As editor, Carol leads a team of talented writers and editors who work together to produce “new, useful, and entertaining matter” for the Almanac as well as the annual Garden Guide, The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids, the Almanac’s line of calendars, books, journals, and the monthly e-magazine EXTRA! Carol is lead writer for a forthcoming book on houseplants, the fourth title in The Old Farmer’s Almanac Gardener’s Handbook Series.

A lifelong gardener and grower, Carol previously wrote for Yankee Magazine, another title in the Yankee Publishing family. During two decades working at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she taught food writing to Journalism students, bringing them to visit, learn about, and write stories on local farms and food producers. As director of Communications at the University Libraries, Carol helped launch the Mass Aggie Seed Library and was on the volunteer crew that tended the library’s courtyard garden. During her time living in Western Massachusetts, Carol was a hands-on member of one of the oldest biodynamic CSA farms in the country, Brookfield Farm. She recently moved back to New Hampshire and tends a food forest of native trees and shrubs. 

Raised in southern New Hampshire, Carol earned a Bachelor’s degree in Communication from the University of New Hampshire. Carol is an avid traveler, having explored many parts of North and South America and Europe in search of history, culture, and hiking. At home, she enjoys vegetable and flower gardening, cooking, and spending time with her friends and family. 

Colleen Quinnell

Colleen Quinnell joined The Old Farmer’s Almanac team in 2013 and today serves as its Creative Director. She manages and oversees the brand and design for all associated titles, including The Old Farmer’s Almanac, The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids, Garden Guide, and the monthly digital magazine EXTRA!, as well as all calendars, gardening books, and cookbooks. In 2017, she led the effort to freshen and sharpen the Almanac logo and related branding and identity visuals. This included a redesign of the Almanac, its Web site, and its line of calendars. 

A graduate of New York’s School of Visual Arts, Colleen worked for Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser, pioneers in magazine design who modernized the look of many well-known titles. As Senior Designer under their direction, Colleen worked on designing or redesigning publications that included Time, the Washington Post, and Washington Post Sunday magazine. 

Originally from Denville, New Jersey, Colleen now lives in Hancock, New Hampshire, close to the Yankee Publishing offices in Dublin. She’s an avid reader and loves playing board games, especially with her extended family, which includes three sisters, their five children, and numerous great-nieces and nephews. 

Sarah Perreault

Managing Editor Sarah Perreault joined The Old Farmer’s Almanac in 2003. She has tons of quirky and little-known facts crammed into that brain of hers, which may be thought useless elsewhere—but not here at the Almanac. Sarah graduated from the University of New Hampshire. She previously worked as an editor at a biotechnology and pharmaceutical publishing company and as a project manager at a textbook publishing company before joining the Almanac team.

Sarah works on all of our products—fact-checking, photo researching, writing, editing, and proofing all things Almanac. She is the proud editor of our Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids series. Sarah is also one of our on-air personalities, regularly chatting it up with radio and TV stations across the country.

Sarah is an avid Red Sox fan and enjoys working in her gardens, kayaking, and skiing with her husband and kids.

Heidi Stonehill

Heidi Stonehill is the Executive Editor for The Old Farmer’s Almanac, joining the team in 2001. As such, she manages the content development of the Almanac’s line of wall, engagement, box, and specialty calendars and also works closely with the Art Director and production department through all proofing stages. Calendar projects (and holiday calculations) start as much as three years in advance and touch on such topics as gardening, weather, astronomy, history, cooking, household hints, and country living. Heidi also compiles and edits the content for the Right-Hand Calendar Pages of the Almanac and has written parts of The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids.

Heidi earned a B.A. in biology from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Shortly after, she became a curatorial intern at the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, where she enjoyed helping the Plant Recorder maintain the maps and other plant collections records for the arboretum. It was there that she had her first (and last) opportunity to briefly operate a backhoe and don arborist’s gear to climb a tall tree (at least, it looked tall to her). After that, Heidi’s career took a jog, and she entered the world of publishing, working at Rodale Press home and garden books as a researcher and later, at Creative Homeowner as a web editor. At The Old Farmer’s Almanac, Heidi finds much truth in the old saying, “Learn something new every day,” as her daily tasks introduce her to many fascinating facts.

She enjoys the natural sciences, animals, gardening, music, art, creative writing, sci-fi, and games (especially computer). Her sweet, orange and white feline, Jimmy Joe, has a very hearty appetite, and he likes to explore everything. 

Cate Hewitt

Cate Hewitt joined The Old Farmer’s Almanac team in June 2024 as copyeditor. She is responsible for editing and proofing the Almanac’s catalog of products, including the yearly Almanac, the Garden Guide, the OFA’s Garden Planner and Garden Journal, Almanac.com’s daily newsletters, OFA books and calendars, and much more! 

Cate graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, with a B.A. in English. In her early career, she worked as a graphic designer in Boston at Harcourt Houghton Mifflin, where she created marketing campaigns for elementary school math and reading programs. She later spent 10 years in the newspaper industry, reporting and editing for publications in Rhode Island and Connecticut, including The Westerly Sun and CTExaminer.com. 

Cate loves language and describes herself as a “dictionary nerd.” She’s also obsessed with almost everything related to textiles, especially crafts using yarn and fabric. Originally from Bronxville, New York, she has been visiting the Monadnock region for many years and recently moved to Keene. Cate is an avid reader, a movie buff, and a fan of diners that serve pie à la mode. 

Tim Goodwin

Tim Goodwin joined the Old Farmer’s Almanac team as associate editor in October 2021. In this role, he is responsible for many aspects of the Almanac—proofreading, fact-checking, compiling data, editing, and writing. Tim writes for The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids, the OFA’s catalog of calendars, and Almanac.com. He’s also part of a team that fact-checks and proofreads the monthly e-magazine EXTRA!

Tim graduated from Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, with a B.A. in journalism and a management minor. He studied at the University of Oregon for one year as part of the National Student Exchange program. The first 15 years of Tim’s career were spent in the newspaper industry in New Hampshire, including several years as the sports editor of the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, a biweekly publication located in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He also spent several years as the editor of the Concord Insider, a weekly magazine published by the Concord Monitor in Concord, New Hampshire. Before joining The Old Farmer’s Almanac, Tim served in the role of arts and entertainment, features, and special sections editor at the Ledger-Transcript.

When not in the Almanac’s Dublin, New Hampshire office, Tim is spending quality family time with his wife, Mary, and their two daughters, Sophie and Penelope. Together, the Goodwin family enjoys going to the beach in Maine during the summer months and sledding in the backyard on snowy winter days—predicted by The Old Farmer’s Almanac, of course. Tim is an avid sports fan, rooting for all of the professional New England teams as well as his University of Oregon Ducks. He also enjoys taste-testing IPAs from breweries around the country.

Joe Bills

Associate Editor Joe Bills joined The Old Farmer’s Almanac staff after ten years in the same position at Yankee magazine. A graduate of Hampshire College, he is one of the few people who can say they’ve been employed by both the oldest artist’s retreat in the United States (MacDowell), and the oldest continuously published periodical (OFA). Along the way, he has run a trucking company, worked as a shrubbery salesperson, directed marketing for a healthcare system, edited newspapers, magazines, and books, published a boxing magazine, and hosted a sports radio show. He is the co-owner of Escape Hatch Books in Jaffrey, NH, and co-founder of the Escape Hatch Foundation.

Catherine Boeckmann

Catherine Boeckmann is the executive digital editor of this website, Almanac.com, and the companion of The Old Farmer’s Almanac. She covers gardening, plants, pest control, soil composition, seasonal and moon cycles, and how-to’s for growing flowers, vegetables, and fruit crops. As a longtime avid gardener, Catherine loves helping people cultivate their horticultural dreams and finds delight in all things botanical—indoors and outdoors—throughout the year.

Catherine is a Master Gardener with Purdue University Extension and is trained in the science and art of gardening. For more than 15 years, she has been publishing gardening content on Almanac.com, where she has authored hundreds of horticultural articles. She has built an entire plant library for The Old Farmer’s Almanac, covering both edibles and ornamentals and also writes a year-round garden planning newsletter. In addition, Catherine writes Almanac articles tied to the cycles of the seasons—whether it’s about garden-fresh food or calendar days that connect us to our agricultural past.

In her personal life, Catherine’s childhood in Indiana germinated her interest in nature, the land, and everything green and growing! She volunteers at her neighborhood community garden, growing vegetables to support area food pantries and local Burmese and Congolese refugees. In addition, Catherine has volunteered for horticultural organizations in a number of capacities, from developing plant guides for native plant gardens to leading workshops for beginner gardeners on soil health.

Jennifer Keating

Jennifer Keating is the Digital Editor at The Old Farmer’s Almanac, joining in the spring of 2023. Jenn is responsible for keeping the hundreds of articles on Almanac.com up-to-date as well as editing and writing new articles. Before joining the Almanac, Jenn worked as the editor for a local horse magazine.
 
Jenn and her family reside in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire, along with their cats (Fig Newton and Colonel Mustard!). She is an avid equestrian who will tell you about her horses any chance she gets. When she’s not spending her free time at the barn in the saddle, she can often be found watching her daughters’ sporting events, playing in her perennial gardens (she loves all varieties of hostas), or trying out a new recipe.

Stacey Korpi

Stacey Korpi originally began as a Direct Sales Associate for Old Farmer’s Almanac publications and became Direct Sales Manager in 2014, handling national sales and distribution of The Old Farmer’s Almanac into nontraditional markets such as hardware and home centers, lawn and garden stores and distributors, and farm and fleet stores. She also handles nontraditional sales of Yankee Magazine in New England. During her off hours, she enjoys gardening, kayaking on (and swimming in) the many beautiful lakes and ponds in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire, and daily walks with her dogs. 

Janice Edson

Janice Edson is the Direct Sales Associate for Old Farmer’s Almanac publications and Yankee Magazine. She joined the team in 2015 and is a crucial behind-the-scenes link that provides critical sales and marketing support for the direct sales division. Janice likes the garden and also enjoys many outdoor activities such as hiking, snow and water skiing, horseback riding, and riding her bike. 

Judson D. Hale Sr.

Jud Hale is the Editor Emeritus of The Old Farmer’s Almanac; Jud was the 12th editor of The Old Farmer’s Almanac (since 1792!) and joined the parent company Yankee Publishing in 1958 as an Assistant Editor. For many years, Jud appeared each fall on television shows throughout North America, including “The Today Show,” “Good Morning America,” “CBS This Morning,” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.”

Born in Boston and raised on a dairy farm in Vanceboro, Maine, Hale graduated from Dartmouth College (Class of 1955) in 1958. He also served with the Third Armored Division as a tank commander from 1955 to 1957. He is married to the former Sally Huberlie of Rochester, New York. They have three married sons, Judson Jr., Daniel, and Christopher, and seven grandchildren.