Marcia H WintersMarcia Winters grew up working along with her family on a dairy and crop farm in southwest Ohio. She attained a degree from two Quaker colleges: Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio and Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. She and her husband, in he 1990s, shared a concern for the environment, eventually building a passive-solar earth-sheltered home in West Virginia. She operated her own whole foods bakery, With Good Reasons, in Keene, New Hampshire from 2007 to 2016. Then she return to the Appalachian mountains choosing a simpler life. When she wrote this book, she was working part-time with an Organic farm. You could bump into her taking long hikes in the mountains of southwest Virginia with her Jack Russell Terrier, dancing, or volunteering in her community. Read More Read Less