Contributors
Kaity Farrell
Kaity is a mother, maker, artist, and private chef compelled to work with her hands and gleaning a slow, simple life with her creative partner and their young son on the island of Nantucket. She styles, photographs, and waxes poetic about seasonal plant-based fare on her blog. Delve into Kaity’s world and her homespun and handmade offerings at fareisle.com.
Julie Letwoski
Julie Letowski lives in Maine with her family where the days are long, the love is sweet, and the life is good. Together they make pottery and tend to a beloved family milk cow, a flock of wayward sheep, and too many geese and chickens. Find Julie’s writings and wares at folk-ware.com, and follow along on Instagram @homesweethomestead.
John Bliss
John spends most days plugged in to highbrow podcasts on his smartphone while he cultivates ten acres of cut flowers and organic mixed vegetables in southern Maine. When the fields are frozen, John can be found either surfing or devouring anything fermented, preferably in some far-flung country, accompanied by his wife and two daughters. Read more at www.broadturnfarm.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.
Hannah Welling
Hannah can be found most days homeschooling her two children, fiber farming, working in the garden, or photographing farm life and Maine culture. Her work and thoughts can be found at mindfulfolkfarm.com.
Crystal Moore-Stevens
Crystal Moore-Stevens is an Author, Artist/Art Teacher, Folk Herbalist, Regenerative Farmer, and Permaculturist. She is the author of award-winning book Grow Create Inspire and Worms at Work, and will soon release her third book about Edible Landscaping. Crystal has been teaching a Resilient Living workshop series for over a decade and is the Garden Manager at EarthDance Organic Farm School in Ferguson, MO. FollowCrystal’s adventures at www.growcreateinspire.com
Brett Ann Stanciu
Brett is a sugarmaker and believer in home gardens and using clotheslines. She lives in northern Vermont with her two daughters. Her novel, Hidden View, was published by Green Writers Press in 2015. Read her blog at stonysoilvermont.com.
Amy Woschek Schmidt
Amy Woschek Schmidt lives with her family among the tall pines and emphatically beautiful people of Lake Superior's north shore. Her husband grows the vegetables and she sings the songs.
Amy Tudor
Amy’s life became entwined with children’s book illustrator Tasha Tudor’s in 1998. It began with being taught to tell the grass from the dianthus when weeding Tasha’s garden. First introduced under a rose bush, Amy and Tasha’s grandson, Winslow, got married. In the nearly twenty years that have followed, Amy's work has gone from weeding to being the driving force behind the preservation and continuation of Tasha’s legacy. Visit the Tudor family at tashatudorandfamily.com.
Abigail Halpin
Abigail Halpin is an illustrator living and drawing in southern Maine. Raised in New England, her work pulls heavily from the flora, fauna and history of the region. In addition to illustrating children's books, she also creates mixed media artwork, blending embroidery and portraiture, stitching stories. When not drawing, she can be found either lost in a book, walking in the woods or in front of her sewing machine.
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