Wendy is a do it yourself,country girl. Most passionate about creating whole food plant based
meals, growing food, herbs and flowers, and practicing sustainable living skills. She is a great
example of personal and environmental sustainability as she has been homesteading for over
29 years from Southwest Wisconsin. Building her first home debt-free one check at a time, living
without running water and wood heat only, she became proficient in chopping wood, carrying
water. She mastered deep mulch, square foot 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. She worked 25years as an independent contractor
running a green cleaning business and was a certified lead remediator. She also has extensive
experience in food production in restaurants of all kinds and catering.