Contributors
Jennifer Kleinrichert
Jennifer lives in a sunny yellow house on three and a half wild and productive acres with her husband, three cats and six chickens. She works as an environmental educator and spends her free time growing plants, exploring natural areas, writing and making things with her hands. Follow her adventures as she and her husband craft an alternative life at thecommonmilkweed.blogspot.com.
Jennifer Judd-McGee
Jennifer is a full-time artist and mother of two. She recently renovated an old house with her family and works from home in her downeast Maine studio. Paper cutting and illustration are her primary mediums, and her work is influenced by her coastal surroundings. She shows her original work in galleries across the U.S. Find her at jenniferjuddmcgee.com.
Jenna Woginrich
Jenna is an author, blogger and farmer in upstate New York, where she raises sheep, dairy goats, poultry, pigs and a hive of bees. The work of the farm is done with the help of a draft horse, sheepdog and good books. In her spare time she can be found with her bow, hawk and black pony with too much mane in his eyes. Follow her adventures at coldantlerfarm.blogspot.com. (Photo by Jon Katz)
Jen Altman
Jen is a photographer and author born in Oakland, California and raised among the cornfields of Omaha, Nebraska. Her enlistment with the US Navy set her salty soul across the Atlantic, roaming the ancient lands of Europe and the Middle East. Now settled in North Carolina with her husband and three daughters, she’s currently working on her fourth book about traveling lands much closer to home.
Janisse Ray
Janisse is a writer, naturalist, activist and author of the award-winning The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food, an introspection on seeds and the future of food. Among other books, Janisse wrote Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a memoir about growing up on a junkyard in the Southern pine flatwoods. She lives on a farm in southern Georgia.
Holly Ward Bimba
Holly is the artist behind Golly Bard. Her watercolor paintings are a quirky mix of imagery inspired by the curiosities of nature, time, the cycle of life, patterns, natural history, things in jars, garden maps, portraits and wallpaper. She lives in the tiny village of Upperville, Virginia with her husband, Chuck and dog, Ladybird. Find more of her work at gollybard.etsy.com and follow her blog at gollybard.blogspot.com.
Holly Bellebuono
Holly connects plants with people. She directs the award-winning Vineyard Herbs Teas and Apothecary on Martha’s Vineyard and the Bellebuono School of Herbal Medicine. She is the author of several books about herbal medicine and women’s empowerment, including The Essential Herbal for Natural Health and Women Healers of the World.
Hilary Berg
Hilary lives with her husband and young son on two-and-a-half acres in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin. Her artwork delves into the magic and whimsy of the natural world and is made with a combination of watercolor and inks. You can view more of her art in her Etsy shop by visiting etsy.com/shop/hilarybee.
Hannah Rosengren
Hannah Rosengren is a freelance illustrator in South Portland, Maine. Working primarily with gouache and ink, her work is most often inspired by nature and a passion for bringing awareness to environmental issues through art. Along with working in her home studio, she is especially fond of bees, coffee, and making seed bombs with her husband. See more of her work at www.hannahrosengren.com
Geninne Zlatkis
Geninne is an artist and blogger living high above a mountain forest at 9,842 feet above sea level close to Mexico City with her husband Manolo, their two very creative teenage boys and a cute border collie puppy named Turbo. Her signature style blends a variety of techniques including painting, collage, embroidery and stamp carving. Visit her at www.geninne.com.
Demetria Provatas Honeywell
Demetria Provatas is the baker, photographer, and artist behind Woodland Keep, a baking and otherwise creative space nestled in the woods of the San Juan Islands. Fueled by the natural landscape and a cozy home, she makes everything from pies to recipe illustrations to moon calendars, taking photographs all the while. See more at woodlandkeep.space.
Danielle Charles-Davies
Danielle Charles-Davies is a freelance writer, food blogger and photographer. She resides on a small farm in Northern Michigan where she and her husband raise Indian runner ducks, a mishmash of hens, two wily cats and two rescued Italian greyhounds called Pippin and Ella. She blogs about mood inspired vegetarian and gluten-free cooking at bluemoonkitchen.com.