The most popular and longest-running sustainable-lifestyle magazine, MOTHER EARTH NEWS provides wide-ranging, expert editorial coverage of organic foods, country living, green transportation, renewable energy, natural health, and green building. Lively, insightful, and on the cutting edge, MOTHER EARTH NEWS is the definitive read for the growing number of Americans who choose wisely and live well. Watch the video below from our friends at Sunflower Journeys for more on our history and parent company, Ogden Publications.
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Meet the staff of MOTHER EARTH NEWS:
Ana Skemp, Editor-in-Chief of MOTHER EARTH NEWS
Ana Skemp is a mother, a farmer, and a maker at Deep Roots Community Farm in Wisconsin. She raises grass-fed beef, KuneKune pigs, Icelandic Cross sheep, Pygora fiber goats, ducks, geese, and chickens. In the summer, the farm is opened up to local school kids for educational programming. Her family recently became the next generation to tend the family apple orchard.
Karmin Garrison, Lead Editor
An avid gamer, word nerd, herbalist, “accidental gardener,” and DIYer, Karmin lives on a one-acre almost-homestead in East Texas in a perpetual state of “almost having goats,” and raising heritage chickens, guinea fowl, gardens, and various fish. When not magicking up words or chasing after kids, she can be found wandering the woods, building something new, fishing, beading and sewing, convincing plants to grow, making everything she possibly can from scratch, or with her nose in a book. Sometimes she sleeps, but that’s usually on accident.
Josh Wilder, Content Director
Josh Wilder has spent over a decade as a professional in the media industry creating engaging user experiences through publication design, events, and video. In his current role at Ogden Publications as the Content Director, he’s responsible for overseeing content from concept development to execution. His projects include editorial oversight, educational workshop video production, and participation in partner events. He’s committed to making the highest quality of experiences that support and celebrate all life on Mother Earth.
Josh is a graduate of Ohio University with a degree in Graphic Design, but more importantly, has spent his lifetime learning from a variety of growers and makers who thrive within DIY communities across the Midwest. He endeavors to share those problem-solving skills to everyone interested in finding solutions. Ultimately, he hopes to spend his twilight years tending to a pumpkin patch.
Amanda Sorell, Managing Editor
Amanda is the senior copy editor for Ogden Publications. At work, she values clarity and connection over upholding rigid grammatical standards. She lives in Seattle with a lively collection of houseplants and cats. She enjoys brewing herbal potions, cooking, learning, making DIY beauty products, and reading and writing about health, literature, and sustainability.
Ingrid Butler, Associate Editor
Ingrid Butler has a BA in English from the University of California, Davis, and an MPhil in Children’s Literature from the University of Cambridge, UK. She enjoys gardening, pickling vegetables, fiber arts, and reading. She is passionate about trap-neuter-return for humanely dealing with feral cats, and loves to grow pollinator plants for the local bees.
Kale Roberts, Associate Editor
Kale has contributed to Grit and its companion Ogden Publications titles since 2012, specializing in renewable energy, natural building and green homes, and community-scale resilience. In his professional life, he helps city governments develop sustainability plans at national nonprofit ICLEI, advocates for local communities within the United Nations climate negotiations, and teaches at the Bard College Center for Environmental Policy. He has worked with the UN Development Programme across Asia-Pacific and served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand. At home, Kale gardens, practices herbalism recipes, and keeps chickens in New York’s Hudson Valley.
Audra Trosper, Associate Editor
A coffee-loving squirrel brain whose superpower is forgetting where she put her phone while it’s in her hand, Audra is the Lead Editor of Goat Journal and a published author and avid gamer.
She has an itsy-bitsy, in-town hobby homestead (tiny town but still a town), where she raised dairy goats for over a decade, has maintained a flock of backyard chickens for 20 years, grows a vegetable garden, and cans the produce from it. When she isn’t wording (in one way or another), gaming, or caring for critters, she is thinking up some new project for her husband to build.
Tonya Olson, Digital Content Manager
Tonya Olson, AKA wordsmith, joined MOTHER EARTH NEWS in 2017 and has been working behind the scenes on all Ogden sites since. Her job could be described as the wordsmith because she matches our content with the words you are searching for online. She loves to help you find what you’re looking for!
She is a keeper of the bees, chicken herder, and garden grower of just about anything who loves to grow luffa and isn’t afraid of hard work, getting her hands dirty, hunting, and processing meat. She dabbles in embroidery, sewing, jewelry making, essential oils, refinishing wood furniture, hatching chicks, composting, and kayaking when she has time! She strives to eat more plant-based foods, reduce consumerism by buying preowned, shifting to renewable energy, replace plastic where possible, and reduce using paper towels at home.
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