Wendy is a do it yourself, from scratch, country girl, most passionate about creating whole food plant based meals, growing food, herbs and flowers, and practicing sustainable living skills.  She dreams of helping people have gardens dripping with food outside their kitchen door.

She homesteaded solo 30+ years in Southwest Wisc. building her first home debt-free one check at a time. She mastered deep mulch, squarefoot gardening composting, vermiculture, food preservation, root cellaring, mushroom growing, beekeeping, maple syrup farming, foraging seriously. She studied permaculture, natural building, passive solar, zero energy homes, rainwater catchment, greywater systems, gravity feed, site planning for wind and solar, green remodeling. She is especially good at repurposing items for building and growing. She has designed classes for a folk school in green cleaning, construction for women, composting and chainsaw and firewood basics for beginners.