Contributors
Tom Graham
Tom is a brewer in central Vermont. He lives with his wife in an old farmhouse where he spends as much time as possible outdoors. He is a beekeeper, gardener and guitarist, and he enjoys baking naturally-leavened bread.
Thorpe Moeckel
Thorpe teaches at Hollins University and lives in and explores the wilds of western Virginia, often with his children. Awarded a 2011 NEA Fellowship in poetry, his fourth collection, Arcadia Road: A Trilogy, was published in fall 2015 by Etruscan Press. A nonfiction book, Watershed Days, was published in spring 2015. See more at www.thorpemoeckel.wordpress.com.
Tara Barker
Tara is the pastry chef for 3Crow and 40 Paper restaurants, which she and her husband own on the coast of Maine. Growing up, she never had a good answer for the “what do you want to be?” question, but she’s since decided that blending food and words is an ideal way to spend her days. She lives across the street from the ocean with her husband and two young sons and blogs sporadically at abakinglife.thedailymeal.com.
Stephen Pullan
Stephen is a father, homesteader, artist and dreamer. He hangs his hat in solar powered yurts where he writes songs, bakes bread and strums the banjo. He makes music for the pure joy of it with the Blue Bus Semi Mobile Orchestra. He also practices wet plate collodion photography in Portland, Maine. See more at mainetintypes.com
Shari Altman
Shari Altman is a writer, photographer, and administrative assistant, who lives in rural Vermont with her husband, three cats, seven chickens, and a few hives of bees. She is the co-founder of Literary North, an organization that provides a carefully selected calendar of literary events in Vermont and New Hampshire and partners with the local literary community to promote and host literary-related events. For the past several years, she has had a quarterly column in Amirisu magazine. Lately, she's all about dahlias, fried okra, her monthly writing group, and weekend trips to New York City.
Schirin Oeding
Schirin is a farming writer (or vice-versa) going to graduate school for ecological agriculture in Germany. Her home turf expands from the Swiss Alps and Swabia to northern Vermont and southern Ontario. She currently lives on a tiny dairy farm in a small village and rides her bike to class through a well-groomed German forest.
Sarah Marshall
Sarah is the owner of Marshall’s Haute Sauce in Portland, Oregon. Her small batch sauce company grew from her love of gardening and background in home preserving. She is passionate about farmers, artisan producers and canning seasonal ingredients. She teaches canning classes and passes on the knowledge and inspiration of preserving to others.
Robin MacArthur
Robin lives on the hillside where she was born in Marlboro, Vermont with her husband and two young children. She is an editor at Green Writers Press, one half of the indie-folk duo Red Heart the Ticker, and a fastidious berry picker on her mother’s farm (with children in tow). You can read more of her work at themmornings.com.
Rachel Bingham
Rachel is the creator of 44Clovers, a small batch handspinning and natural dying studio on Peaks Island, Maine, where she lives with her husband. She spends her days preparing fresh local fleeces for her yarns, researching lichens, conducting dye tests, capturing her dye plants in watercolors and oils and designing her plant dye workshops. Read more, find tutorials and shop her handmades at 44clovers.com.
Phoebe Wahl
Phoebe grew up unschooled in Washington state and credits her 'free range' childhood for much of her inspiration and work ethics. She graduated from RISD in 2013 and makes everything from tiny paintings to giant puppets. Her work revolves around themes of comfort, nostalgia and connection to nature and one another. She just published her first children’s book, Sonya's Chickens. See more at phoebewahl.com.
Michele Graham
Michele Graham grew up on a farm in the rolling hills of upstate New York, but has spent most of her life on the West Coast. Michele is a photographer, writer, and bookkeeper in Portland, Oregon, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She loves researching American foodways, cocktails, and plants. Find her at ciderandrye.com.
Meredith Winn
Meredith is a photographer and freelance writer. She weaves stories from truth and optical illusions from images. Balancing the digital world with slow photography, she is happiest in her darkroom creating tintypes from silver and light. Meredith lives off-grid in a yurt in New England with her partner and a trio of boys. See more of her work at meredithwinn.com.