Ellen Dietz, owner of Organic Matters - Ulster, joined the company in 2001. She studied at School of Visual Arts in NYC and has a degree in design.

"I work with a crew of brilliant women on gorgeous properties. I have been given the opportunity to put things in their right order and create beauty . . . I am incredibly fortunate!"

Heather Whitefield, the founder of Organic Matters, is a garden designer. She did her Post-Graduate work in Landscape Design at Radcliff. Heather created Organic Matters in 1995.

Organic Matters split into OM-Ulster and OM-Dutchess in 2006.