Contributors
Todd R. Nelson
Todd R. Nelson, a former English teacher and school principal, lives in Penobscot, Maine. He tends the wood stove, the bread dough, and lupines spreading in the former cow pasture that comprises his front yard. Words too are embers and he spends a lot of time tending them.
Stephanie Renee Lindeen
Stefanie Renee is a mom, scribbler, painter, photographer, project manager, assistant to women entrepreneurs, event coordinator and overall creative advocate. www.stefanierenee.net
Rachel Jepson Wolf
Rachel Jepson Wolf is the owner and founder of LuSa Organics (lusaorganics.com), a body care company specializing in herbal balms, soaps, and baby care. Rachel and her husband, Pete, homeschool their two kids in rural southwestern Wisconsin. Rachel is the author of two books: Herbal Adventures, a wildcrafting book for kids and their families, and The Unplugged Family Activity Book a treasure trove of offline fun. You can find her online at rachelwolfclean.com.
Oriana Koren
Oriana Koren is an editorial photographer and writer based in Los Angeles, CA whose work is anchored in food, culture, and travel. Interested in the intersections of food, history, and community, Koren’s work is shaped by the fusion of personal narrative and in-depth documentary practice focusing on the principal contributions of people of color, immigrant, and womxn’s communities within American foodways and food culture.
Molly Reeder
Molly Reeder is an illustrator and a baker with a deep love for travel and the ocean. Currently living on Maui, she has been a nomadic baker and artist living in New Orleans, Australia, New Zealand, Charlottesville and Bulgaria. Her work focuses on food, environment and community, looking to strengthen our relationships to the earth and to each other. Her love for food and plants is illustrated in both her art and also her floral adorned cakes and pastries. And, she strives to make meaningful connections in both of these areas.
Marisa McClellan
Marisa is a food blogger, canning teacher, and cookbook author based in Center City, Philadelphia. She is the author of Food in Jars, Preserving by the Pint, and Naturally Sweet Food in Jars. Find more of her jams, pickles, and preserves (all cooked up in her eighty-square-foot kitchen) at foodinjars.com.
Lise Metzger
Lise Metzger is an award-winning freelance photographer from Washington, D.C. Her interest in a real food diet and a healthy and just food system led her to create Grounded Women, an ongoing project about women sustainable farmers. She is also a site host for a CSA and loves to connect people to the source of their food. She offers photography workshops on farms, which you can find out about on groundedwomen.com, or @groundedwomen on Instagram or Facebook. Her website is lisemetzger.com.
Leah Batt
Leah Batt is a Maine-based knitting, embroidery, and sewing designer with a deep love of all things home and handmade. Inspired by American landscapes, history, and art, her designs have appeared in Taproot Magazine, Maine Knits, Twist Collective, and Knitscene. She also spins, gardens, and bakes a delicious pie. You can find her on Instagram @MsCleaver and at mscleaver.com.
Kristen Johns
Kristen Johns is an artist and plant enthusiast living on the west coast of Canada. She uses colored pencils and watercolors to capture the wisdom and beauty of the plants, trees and seeds that surround our lives, feed us and give us comfort. She spends her days raising her family, making art and gardening - each one inspiring the other. See more of her work at kristenjohns.com
Kirsten K. Shockey
Kirsten K. Shockey is the coauthor, with her husband, Christopher Shockey, of The Big Book of Cidermaking; Miso, Tempeh, Natto & Other Tasty Ferments; Fiery Ferments; and the best-selling Fermented Vegetables. Books that came from their desires to both help people eat in new ways, both for the health of themselves and the planet. They got their start in fermenting foods over twenty years ago on a 40-acre hillside smallholding which grew into their local organic food company, Kirsten realized that her passion lay in the wish to both teach people how to ferment and push this culinary art to new flavors. She leads experiential workshops worldwide and online helping people to make, enjoy and connect with their food through fermentation. You can find stories of a life fueled by fermented foods on Instagram @kirstenkshockey or on the web at https://ferment.works/.
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.
Justin Michael Provatas Honeywell
Justin grew up in the heart of the Pacific Northwest. Formally trained in Field Ecology with a BA from Evergreen State College, he has also spent many of the last 20 years attending tracking courses and spending plenty of time out in the woods honing his awareness and survival skills.