Oct 25, 2016
Herbalist, artist, vegetable farmer, wife and mother - and author - Crystal Stevens has embodied her Earth-loving knowledge and perspective in a bounteous new book: GROW CREATE INSPIRE, Crafting a Joyful Life of Beauty and Abundance (New Society Press, 2016).
Crystal empowers the reader to dance the path to sustainable, resilient, healthy living! She provides practical advice on gardening, foraging, DIY natural household and beauty recipes, simple seed to table meals, preserving the harvest - and more. Her personal stories color this book with a rainbow of gracious values.
With her husband Eric Stevens, Crystal has nourishing Earthworms host Jean Ponzi for the past three growing seasons, as farmers of the LaVista CSA in Godfrey, IL. Her work has been feeding this show's perspective!
Music: For Michael, performed by Brian Curran at KDHX, December 2015.
Book Release Party! Sunday December 4, Old Bakery Beer in Alton IL (3-6 pm)
Find "Farmer Crystal" in: Mother Earth News and Feast, Permaculture and The Healthy Planet Magazines.