My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Female
Industry	Agriculture
Occupation	Contrary Farmer and renianssance woman
Location	Eaton, Ohio, United States
Introduction	I am a woman in my late 40's who's reason for living is to grow organic food and revive local foodsheds. I was raised by bleeding heart, liberal intellectuals in a small SW Ohio College town. In my life I have been a chef, a horse groom and trainer, an archaeologist, a student, an artist and for the past 12 years a small, contrary, sustainable farmer and farmers market manager. You might call me a regular renaissance woman.
Interests	Gardening, politics, horses, Homebrewing, winemaking, cooking, local food issues, buying local, buying American, farmers' markets, archaeology, art, drawing, AuGres, MI, star gazing, dogs, cats, chickens, Ohio history, Miami University, Talawanda High School, McGuffey lab School, time travel, Locavore issues, bad puns, puzzles
Favorite movies	Blazing Saddles, American Beauty, Monty Python's Holy Grail, LOTR, What the Bleep do We Know?, Sideways, Wizard of Oz, The Philadelphia Story
Favorite music	Indigo Girls, Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, The Beatles, Patsy Cline, Stravinski, Junior Brown, Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, the Who, Royal Crescent Mob
Favorite books	Anna Karinina, Kirsten Lavernsdatter, Anything By Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Austen novels, Prodigal Summer, Poisonwood Bible, both by Barbra Kingsolver, The New Organic Grower, All Audubon and Peterson Field guides, Root cellering by Mike and Nancy Bubel

The squish of mud between your toes; how would you live your life as a frog?

By swimming, eating insects and small crustaceans and laying eggs. On a nice evening I would croak