Always passionate, mostly sarcastic and sometimes irreverent, Diana Prichard is a rural-living Freelance Writer whose sum of parts are sometimes hard to reconcile. An environmentalist since early childhood — when the word environmentalist meant nothing to her or most anyone else — the small hobby farm she lives on with her husband and two daughters is a fluid exercise in exploring self-sustainability and providing resources to the local community.
She is most passionate about green, local and homegrown foodstuffs and writes a column, Handmade Food, for Try Handmade to that tune. When she’s not doing chores or working you can often find her rambling on her personal blog at Diana Prichard dot com, sharing her random thoughts via her Twitter stream and wasting copious amounts of time on Facebook. She looks forward to seeing you there!
Anne lives, works, and grows her garden in western Michigan. While the garden is sadly a very small plot, she has plants in pots and boxes all over the house and has almost fully converted her flat roof to grow just a bit more every year. This may prove a challenge this summer with her toddler “helping out.” She uses compost to improve her soil quality and grows a plethora of tomatoes for canning and making the best salsa in town. For the past three years Anne has been working as the children’s music director for a local church and loves to sing, dance, and teach kids how to worship God through music. Sewing is both her hobby and a handy way to give green gifts to her friends. She’s been trying to cook more healthfully for herself and her family, and loves finding new ways every day to live a greener, more economical lifestyle. Her blog, A Little Bit Crazy, is 2 parts “mommy” and 1 part “everything else under the sun.”
Born a tree hugger and lover of the outdoors, Amy Whitley is a children’s wilderness safety instructor for her county’s Search and Rescue unit, a freelance writer, and the mother of three kids in rural Oregon. The first to admit she’s learning as she goes with this whole green movement, she‘s replacing the plastic in her house one Klean Kanteen at a time, switching to cloth as each pack of paper napkins run out, and trying her best to remember to actually bring the reusable bags with her to the grocery store. Implementing her background in creative writing and editing, Amy blogs about family life and parenting at The Never-True Tales and reviews great places to travel with children at Pitstops for Kids.
Amber Strocel lives in Metro Vancouver, Canada with her husband Jon, preschooler Hannah and toddler Jacob. Her children are the catalysts for her journey into green living. Like many moms, she wants her children to inherit a better world to live in. Until this year Amber spent 10 years working as an engineer, and is now in the process of deciding what she really wants to be when she grows up. Living sustainably is playing a big part as she explores her dreams and re-crafts her lifestyle. Many eco-friendly choices like gardening, living more simply and reducing consumption are also personally fulfilling and money saving. They afford her an opportunity to spend time with her kids and teach them how to appreciate the little things in life. When she’s not growing vast quantities of cucumbers or baking bread Amber does a lot of writing at Strocel.com. She also enjoys sewing, knitting, and eating far too much chocolate. (Fair trade and organic, of course!)
Lisa is a stay at home wife, photographer, and writer living in a small not so eco-friendly town in Oklahoma. While always having an interest in the environment, Lisa didn’t become truly green until she became sick from Fibromyalgia and started searching for ways to get better. After learning how toxic the products she was using were, she quickly started looking for natural alternatives. One thing led to another and now she is the family hippie, doing things like getting her favorite local restaurant to stock organic vodka, joining her local recycling coalition, and driving her husband crazy by reading every label and telling him why he shouldn’t eat the things he loves. In hopes of sharing her love for the environment with others and saving her husband from having to listen to her talk for hours on end about going green, she started her blog Retro Housewife Goes Green. She now writes for a few sites, all about environmental issues. Even with her online outlets she still drives her husband, family, and friends nuts with all her “knowledge” about the environment.
