Contributors
Stacy Brenner
Stacy Brenner lives in Maine with her husband and two daughters. They raise vegetables and flowers on their organic farm. Stacy’s focus is on the flowers, which she arranges for weddings and other events. She also finds beauty in old wood, rusty metal, and all the fruits of her labor. Her best ideas come after coffee and before whiskey and can be read at www.broadturnfarm.com.
Sophie MacKenzie
Sophie is a plant-based whole foods blogger and photographer who shares her culinary creations on her blog, Wholehearted Eats. Now residing in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was born and raised in a small coastal community on Vancouver Island. She is a West Coast country girl through and through, and is happiest exploring the majestic forests of the Pacific. Follow her at wholeheartedeats.com.
Rikki Snyder
Rikki is a freelance photographer, stylist and writer currently residing in Queens, New York. She grew up in the heart of the beautiful Hudson Valley with a wonderful family focused on food. When she’s not in the kitchen baking or taking pictures, she can be found perusing antique stores or relaxing in the backyard with a good book of poetry. Visit her at rikkisnyder.com
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.
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.
Meg McElwee
Meg divides her creative energy among fiber work, photography, parenting, and writing. She loves to marvel at the world alongside her three unschooled children, and fills their days with adventures in North Carolina nature as well as art, books, and family music jams. Meg is the author of Growing Up Sew Liberated. She writes about the mixture of motherhood and art at blog.mamaliberated.com.
Maya Pagán
Maya creates distinct designs that utilize sustainable resources and fibers while weaving in elements from the natural world. Maya is the author of Hope, Make, Heal: 20 Crafts to Mend the Heart and Reinvention: Sewing with Rescued Materials. Her website is filled with projects and inspiration that artfully recycle, repurpose, and reinvent. Learn more at mayamade.com
Lisa Congdon
Fine artist and illustrator Lisa Congdon is best known for her colorful abstract paintings, intricate line drawings, pattern design & hand lettering. She works for clients around the world including the MoMA, Harvard University, Martha Stewart Living, Chronicle Books, Simon & Schuster, and Random House Publishing, among many others. She exhibits her work around the country, including in shows at the Contemporary Jewish Museum and Bedford Gallery in California. A selection of her works are currently available through New York’s Uprise Gallery. Lisa writes a popular daily blog about her work, life and inspiration called Today is Going to be Awesome. She is the author of six books, including the starving-artist-myth-smashing Art Inc: The Essential Guide to Building Your Career as an Artist, and illustrated books The Joy of Swimming, Fortune Favors the Brave, Whatever You Are, Be a Good One, Twenty Ways to Draw a Tulip and A Collection a Day. Her seventh book, A Glorious Freedom: Older Women Leading Extraordinary Lives will be released by Chronicle Books in October 2017. She was named one of 40 Women Over 40 to Watch in 2015. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Kristine Vejar
Kristine is a natural dyer and the owner of A Verb for Keeping Warm, a natural dyeing studio and textiles shop offering yarn, fiber, fabric, and textile-based classes. She lives in Oakland, California, with her girlfriend, Adrienne, and her two dachshunds, Cleo and Callie. Her first book, The Modern Natural Dyer (STC Craft), was published in October 2015. Visit Kristine at averbforkeepingwarm.com and @avfkw.
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/.
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.
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.
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