Aimee Van Ostrand, L.Ac. is a Licensed Acupuncturist and owner of Healing Within Acupuncture & Wellness Studio in Stillwater and White Bear Lake. Aimee holds a Masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She began teaching tai chi at her studios to encourage patients to maintain a life-long practice of movement and breath. In the summertime,…

Amanda is a Minnesota native who grew up in a family of gardeners and started growing microgreens to keep her green thumb in shape during the long Minnesota winters. She now owns Fiddlehead Farm LLC and grows a menu of over 45 different varieties of microgreens for restaurants, co-ops and farmers markets in the Twin…

As a professional marketing copywriter and oil painter, Barb Casey is a little obsessed with expressing verbs and adjectives in paint.  She applies a similar creative process to both writing and painting:  analyze the subject, define the key message, edit extraneous information – and make the most important thing memorable.  She has lived in communities…

Bart Dunning has been a woodworking hobbyist since he was in high school.  He has built furniture, rebuilt a couple of wooden boats and has done some 3-D and relief carving.  He has always enjoyed using woodworking hand tools because they are quieter and afford a more intimate sense of the wood being used for…

Becky raises sheep and makes fiber art, specializing in feltmaking. Using the wool from her flock of sheep, she creates two- and three-dimensional felt art pieces including wall art, garments, accessories, rugs, and vessels. Felting combines her love of animals and nature with her passion for art. She enjoys teaching and sharing the magic of…

Beth Dooley has covered the local food scene in the Northern Heartland for thirty years. Her writings regularly appear in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and she has appeared on local television and radio. She has written or co-written numerous cookbooks, including ‘Savory Sweet’, ‘The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen’ and most recently  ‘Sweet Nature‘.   Beth…

Brennan’s fascination with food culture and history was catalyzed by a trip to Western Europe in 2009 to study communal brick ovens. He began baking bread soon after, baking out of his father’s own brick oven and selling at local farmers markets during his high school summers. He has a degree from Whitman College in…

Brian Keogh was first exposed to woodcarving from his dad, Bob Keogh. Funny thing was, Brian had no interest in carving when his dad was alive, but for the past 10 years he has been carving spoons from green birch. Brian enjoys cycling in the summer and nordic skiing and saunas in the winter.  He and…