Donald A. Jones is a helicopter and aircraft mechanic by trade and a collector of rototillers by accident. The son of a U.S. Marine and a Mother who trusted him, he grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, and eventually ended up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Married, and with a daughter in grad school, and a son in college. Gardening was always a hobby and he developed his mechanical skills repairing his own lawnmowers as a young teenager.