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</SPAN>MaryJane Butters, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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/><st1:City><st1:place>Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>’s organic pioneer, will
sign copies of her first book at Hastings Books, Music, & Videos store at
the Palouse Mall, at <st1:time Minute="0" Hour="16">4pm</st1:time> on Saturday,
December 10.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Refreshments will be
provided at the booksigning reception.<SPAN
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</SPAN>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.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In 1986, Butters purchased a small farm eight miles southeast of
<st1:City><st1:place>Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Following the
<st1:City><st1:place>Chernobyl</st1:place></st1:City> nuclear disaster, she
founded the environmental organization that became the Palouse-Clearwater
Environmental Institute and served as the group’s first
president.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">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.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The success of her magazine resulted in the
Random House contract, signed in October of 2003 for $1.35 million, for her
books. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">MaryJane’s Ideabook Cookbook Lifebook
includes 416 pages and more than 600 illustrations and photographs.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The book retails for $35
hardcover.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>