Meet our People

Sarah Pope

Mother, Nutrition Educator & Writer

Raluca Schachter

Nutritionist and Metabolic Typing Advisor

Bri DeRosa

Mother & Writer

Robyn Jasko

Creator of GrowIndie.com, Gardener & Writer

Andrea Fabry

Founder of momsAWARE, Writer & Mother

HandPicked Nation

Real Food Enthusiasts

Food Cycle

Educators & Cyclists

James Boyce

New Media Consultant

Adam Weiss

Master Gardener & Co-Owner of Pike Lane B and B

Laura Haverland

Farmer

Cheryl Paff

Farmers Market Manager

Nancy Zander

Cookbook Author, Sustainability Coach & Owner of All Cooped Up

Nina Planck

Author & Mother

Stanley Fishman

Cookbook Author & Blogger

Leslie Berliant

Chocolatier, Blogger & PR Maven

Leona Palmer

Writer

Christine Kennedy

Stay-at-Home Mom, Homeschool Teacher & Blogger

Orren Fox

Student, Beekeeper & Chicken-Raiser

Richard Tullis

Photographer & Artist

Cassie Pence

Writer, Co-Owner of Organic Housekeepers

Mera Granberg

Consultant, Writer

Renee Wilkinson

Writer, Designer & Green Thumb

Musa Durgan

Managing Partner of Garden State Market

Deborah Madison

Cookbook Author

David Culp

Writer

Marion Rosenfeld

Editor, Producer, Co-Founder of The Cooking Room

Jody Grimm

Raw Chocolatier

Zakary Pelaccio

Chef, Restaurateur

Rae Stang

Chocolatier

Scott Witherow

Chocolatier

Jori Jayne Emde

Bon Vivant

Elizabeth Thompson

Writer, Photographer, Fisherman

Kristen Frederickson

Art Historian, Blogger

Slow Films

Filmmakers

Jere Gettle

Seed Seller, Author

Betty Fussell

Author

Joel Salatin

Lunatic Farmer

Katja Jylkka

Teacher

Nicolette Hahn Niman

Livestock Rancher, Attorney

Tomiko Peirano

Director of Content & Site Management

Katey Parker

Social Media Manager

Staci Strauss

Co-Founder

Craig McCord

Co-Founder

Featured People

Renee Wilkinson

Renee Wilkinson is the creator of HipChickDigs.com, a popular website dedicated to urban homesteading, edible landscape design, and sustainable living. With a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon and garden spade in hand, she has been inspiring urbanites everywhere to get their hands dirty in their own city homesteads. Currently Renee is completing a graduate degree in landscape architecture to further revolutionize urban green spaces. She lives blissfully on a tenth of an acre city lot in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, three chickens, four ducks and a baby on the way.

Leona Palmer

Leona Palmer was a native of rural Wisconsin before becoming a time-tested New Yorker. After having received her bachelor's degree from New York University in Literature and Creative Writing, she was discovered on the sidewalk and offered a modeling contract. Working in fashion inspired her to explore issues of Women's Health, Media Representation, and Sustainable Living. Recently called back to her 'roots', she left the big city to take up an internship on Newton Community Farm, a small non-profit CSA outside of Boston. A place where she can try her hand at growing agriculture while evolving her understanding of health and well-being in our society and culture. Leona is a regularly featured contributor to The Huffington Post and to Madisonplus.com, a news and fashion blog. She is currently working on her first novel as well as a non-fiction exploration of death and grieving.

Stanley Fishman

Stanley Fishman was very ill most of his life, with asthma and constant lung infections which turned into 'fatal' and 'irreversible' lung disease. When the doctors told him there was no hope, he gave up on them, and turned to alternate methods. Real food was the answer, and grassfed meat rebuilt the lungs that 'could not heal.' No current health problems, not one. He ruined the first grassfed meat he cooked, and experimented with traditional methods until he learned how to cook it. Seeing a need, he wrote Tender Grassfed Meat, a cookbook that makes it easy to cook tender and delicious grassfed meat. He has also written Tender Grassfed Barbecue, a cookbook that adapts traditional barbecue methods to modern times. He is devoted to the real food movement and blogs about grassfed meat and other real food issues at www.tendergrassfedmeat.com.