He has lectured across America on practically everything vegetable, from their history to exceptional new hybrids, to historical and contemporary design trends, and has designed spectacular potagers for clients around the country. In previous incarnations, he has been an Echols Scholar at the University of Virginia, the inspiration for the character of “Nick” in Whit Stillman’s Academy Award-nominated movie Metropolitan, had his play Desperate Acts produced Off Broadway, starred as reporter Lou Roman on the daytime drama One Life To Live.

His book 75 Exciting Vegetables for Your Garden, heralded as having "all the qualities of an early 20th Century classic", was published by Gibbs Smith Publisher in 2005 and both 75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden and 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden were published in 2008 to complete this celebrated trilogy. His next book, The Year at Hortulus Farm, a beautifully photographed, month to month diary of life at Hortulus Farm, will be introduced by the same publisher in 2009.

He is a member of The Dramatists Guild, The American Federation of Theater & Radio Artists, and The Screen Actors Guild.