Britta Fink, Director-at-Large (First Term)

Britta had a career in medicine from 2003 to 2022 as a full-time OB-GYN physician primarily in solo practice. She was a contributing member of multiple guidance committees including outpatient surgery and electronic medical records selection and transition. In her daily practice she was solely responsible for staff management, scheduling, and office policy. Britta has a B.A. in both English Literature and Biology from Swarthmore College.

Britta began gardening in North Carolina and grew a large variety of perennials from seed. She has gardened continuously on three different large properties in Oregon since 2003, including Lebanon, Coos Bay, and now Eugene. She is a self-taught gardener, planting and caring for more than 400 different trees, 800 shrubs, and countless perennials and bulbs in those gardens.

Britta has been a member of HPSO since 2019, attended multiple study weekends and horticultural lecture series, traveled on four HPSO garden tours, and volunteers at Hortlandia. Britta will be taking over as Editor of The Quarterly with the 2026 Winter issue and opened her own garden to HPSO in June.