Linda Fey has spent most of her life helping others achieve better understanding of their relationship to the natural world through growing, cooking and eating real food. She ran a successful market garden and fresh herb business in Door County Wisconsin and maintained 350 garlic varieties in the Rio Grande Valley near Albuquerque NM. She is involved in biodiversity conservation and has searched for land snails in damp ditches around the world. She teaches, writes, gardens and tries to keep fit in Albuquerque NM and has recently become a certified laughter yogi.