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  • Sam(antha) Burns

    Maine farmer on 53 acres under lifetime conservation. I write about opting out of corporate food systems through real skills, real food, and the unglamorous truth about working the land.

  • Tim Connolly

    Writing as a way to explore and create. Fiction, poetry, narrative. Many interests, new and expired. More amateurs than professionals would make a beautiful world.

  • Night Shift Writing

    Hi! I'm Deb, chaos taming & cycle breaking specialist; creating planners that help you hit your life reset button. Also, I'm an author, artist, & podcaster exploring themes of curiosity, resiliency, and the complexity of life. \ud83d\udc36\ud83d\udc31 Mama.

  • Beccalynne | Grow With Me

    An Eastern Ontario gardener building a more abundant and self-sufficient garden one season at a time. Expect perennial foods, low-effort growing, healthier soil, practical experiments and honest lessons from a garden designed to support real life.

  • Christine Martin

    Rancher and Certified Holistic Management® Educator helping women land stewards align ecology, economy, and self through conscious relationship with the land, so regeneration becomes a lived reality, not just a practice.

  • Ashley Martin

    Former business exec who traded slides for soil. Free practical guides for southern homesteading: gardens, animals, bees, land, recipes, and the systems that make it all work. Based in Texas on 40 acres.

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