[Vision2020] MaryJane Butters booksigning Dec 10

[Bill London]

               MaryJane Butters, Moscow's organic pioneer, will sign copies of her first book at Hastings Books, Music, & Videos store at the Palouse Mall, at 4pm on Saturday, December 10.  Refreshments will be provided at the booksigning reception.

               The book, "MaryJane's Ideabook Cookbook Lifebook For the Farmgirl in All of Us," is published by Clarkson Potter, a division of Random House, and focuses on the themes of a simplified and hopeful lifestyle, including keeping a home, raising a family, socializing with friends, and contributing to the community.

Her book reflects her experiences growing up in a self-sufficient Mormon family and then later breaking down gender barriers as a wilderness ranger and carpenter.  In 1986, Butters purchased a small farm eight miles southeast of Moscow.  Following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, she founded the environmental organization that became the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute and served as the group's first president.

To develop markets for locally-produced organic beans, in 1990 she started selling falafel, the first of more than 60 prepared organic foods she now markets worldwide under her MaryJanesFarm brand, through retail sales, websites (www.maryjanesfarm.org), and her ad-free magazine.

The success of her magazine resulted in the Random House contract, signed in October of 2003 for $1.35 million, for her books. 

MaryJane's Ideabook Cookbook Lifebook includes 416 pages and more than 600 illustrations and photographs.  The book retails for $35 hardcover.
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