Contributors
Thea Colman
Thea Colman combined her hobbies, creating a career that justifies all her favorite purchases -- fiber, vintage glassware, and spirits. Her knitwear designs often feature cables, lace, and motifs that look harder than they are, and each one is named after a cocktail. Both the knit and the drinks are usually on her Instagram feed, under @theacolman.
Suzanne Travers
Suzanne Travers has written for newspapers, magazines, and online publications in New York and New Jersey for twenty years, often covering seniors and aging. She lives with her daughters in her New Jersey hometown and walks her dog through the woods along the Passaic River. She reads too much news on her phone, got an A+ in junior high woodshop, and reminds you that New Jersey is the Garden State. Find her at suzannetravers.net.
Signe Gabriel
Signe is an artist and illustrator living and working in Copenhagen. She is inspired by everyday life, nature, traditions, patterns, old porcelain and textiles, and the world of children. She wants every illustration she makes to tell a story and loves to create characters, landscapes, and entire worlds inhabited by chickens, rabbits, and grandmothers. Visit her at signegabriel.com.
Sarah Waldman
Sarah fell in love with food while playing “cooking show” with her little sister in the 1980s. Now she spends her time being a mother, food writer, and recipe developer. As a health-focused home cook, Sarah develops and offers recipes for simple, whole-food meals appropriate for every member of the family. Sarah's work has been featured in Real Simple, Edible Vineyard, Food52, The Coastal Table, and Parents Magazine. Sarah lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband and two boys. Her cookbook, Feeding a Family: A Real-Life Plan for Making Dinner Work, hit the shelves in 2017.
Sarah von Thomsen
Sarah lives in Schwerin, Germany, with her husband and two children. She is a mother and wife as well as a lover of yoga, sewing, biodynamic beekeeping, and the Oxford comma. She is currently pursuing her master's degree in Waldorf education at the Seminar für Waldorfpädagogik Hamburg.
Nicole Knutsen
Nicole Knutsen is a crochet designer and writer living with her husband and three young children in Orange County, California, where she endeavors to live with intentionality in the middle of fast-paced suburbia. She believes in the power of fiber arts to inspire a slower pace and a return to pride in craftsmanship, and is dedicated to showcasing the versatility of crochet. You can follow along with her journey in handcraft, family, and simple living at naturallynoracrochet.com.
Missy Campbell
Missy Campbell lives, homeschools, and grows fruit, flowers, and veggies in Kentucky with her clan of a half dozen. Around town she photographs, prepares, talks about, eats, and shares the delicious edibles that thrive within ninety miles of her home. She blogs the praises of slow food, slow home, and slow beauty at tasteofsimple.com. Find her everywhere: @tasteofsimple
Miranda Sofroniou
Miranda is an Illustrator from London currently based in Melbourne, Australia. She graduated from The University of the Arts London (Camberwell College of Art) in 2012 with a degree in Illustration. She experiments with traditional techniques of drawing and painting, to create playful and engaging designs which celebrate colour, pattern and nature. Drawing on her own travel experiences, collecting stories and working from her sketchbook/on the spot drawings she strives to evoke a sense of exploration and wonder.
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.
Matt Smith
Matt is an independent photojournalist based in Eastern Pennsylvania applying a fine art background to reportage. Following years on staff at a daily newspaper, Matt went out on his own to create a deeper engagement with people and communities to tell their stories. See more of his work at mattsmithphotographer.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/.
Kare Peacock
Kare Peacock spun a love for crochet, learned at her grandmother’s knee, into a lifelong passion for creativity that led to her becoming an art therapist. Her artistic interests are like one of her grandmother’s old recipes: developed from many ingredients and simmered over time. She enjoys making and writing while raising a family in Pittsburgh. Follow her on Instagram @peacockare.