Annette Cottrell

ANNETTE COTTRELL is the author of the popular blog www.SustainableEats.com.  A longtime canner and gardener, in December of 2008 she stopped buying industrial food altogether and transformed her one-fifth-acre Seattle city lot into an edible oasis and urban farm. She recently relocated with her family of four to Carnation, WA where she now raises food for a handful of Seattle-area families.  She is a recipient of the 2011 Jeff Fairhall Local Food Hero Award.