Nicolien van Doorn is a freelance journalist with a focus on nature. Until her retirement, she was a journalist at the Trouw newspaper, where she also had a garden section for several years. She now writes for the popular magazine Groei & Bloei, among others. She works as a volunteer at the Gimborn National Tree Museum in Doorn and in the De Pampel vegetable garden in the Hoge Veluwe National Park.