Hi, I'm Helen Jupiter!

Yep, that's my real name, and nope, my parents were neither hippies nor classicists - I just got lucky.

If you've arrived here looking to hire a writer (fingers crossed), then you're in the right place: I've worked for a Fortune 500 company, an internet startup, and everything in between.

My experience includes work for Mattel (the world's largest toy company), ReadyMade Magazine (a do-it-yourself, lifestyle mag), Gridskipper (Gawker Media's urban travel blog, now owned by Curbed), and Mother Nature Network (where I write book reviews and roundups). Want to know more? Check out my resume!

I wrote the popular weekly gardening column "How Does Your Garden Grow" for ReadyMade online until the magazine folded in June 2011. Undeterred, I decided to keep on keepin' on with my own gardening blog, and Front Yardening was born. Click on over, leave a comment, and if you're in Los Angeles, please - I'm begging you - come and pick up some zucchini!