Alexandra Douglas

Alexandra Douglas was born in Chicago, Illinois. At age nine, she began raising psittacines (parrots). When she moved to Oregon for college in 2005, she majored in Animal Sciences at Oregon State University with an emphasis in pre-veterinarian medicine and poultry. Alexandra was hooked on quail as soon as she was handed a day-old pharaoh Coturnix.  Currently, she owns Stellar Game Birds, Poultry, Waterfowl LLC, a poultry farm that sells chicks, hatching eggs, eating eggs and meat. She has been featured in Aviculture Europe and honored by the Heritage Poultry Breeder Association of America for her research on quail.  Her book on Japanese Quail, Coturnix Revolution, is a comprehensive guide to raising and understanding these domesticated fowl. Visit her at http://www.stellargamebirds.net or follow her on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Stellargamebirds/

Amy Fewell

Amy Fewell is an author, homesteader, and the founder of the Homesteaders of America. She is the author of The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion and The Homesteader’s Natural Chicken Keeping Handbook. She lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, where her and her family holistically and naturally raise their livestock, gardens, and mini-homesteaders! You can follow her doings at The Fewell Homestead.

Carla Tilghman

Carla Tilghman is the editor of Community Chickens website at Ogden Publications and an avid researcher of all things fowl.  In her spare time, she is a textile artist, gardener of herbs and dye plants and backyard chicken wrangler.  You can see your art work at Lapin Textiles and her editorial work at Community Chickens.

Christine Heinrichs

Christine Heinrichs grew up in northern New Jersey, the New York suburbs. She moved to California in 1967, where she attended the University of California at San Diego and San Diego State University. She completed a degree in journalism at the University of Oregon and specialized in science writing. Christine’s written about a wide variety of subjects, from golf courses to horses. Her work focused on chickens after writing How to Raise Chickens, about raising traditional breeds in small flocks, in 2007. How to Raise Poultry followed in 2009. REvised editions were published in 2013 and 2014, respectively. She is a contributing editor to Diversity in Action. She has been an elephant seal docent since 2007, after she and her husband moved from Madison, Wisconsin to Cambria. They are Living History docents at Hearst Castle, dressing up in 1930s finery and decorating the estate for Night Tours. Her work appears in many publications: Earth Island Journal, BioCycle, Backyard Poultry and others.

Frank Hyman

Frank Hyman teaches foraging to chefs, organic farmers and wannabe foragers. He is licensed to sell mushrooms in two states and writes the Feral Feast column on foraging for Paleo magazine. He’s also an award-winning garden designer, carpenter, stone mason and political rabble-rouser. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Organic Gardening, Bicycle Times and a dozen other magazines. His book on trouble free chicken keeping (Hentopia) came out in December 2018. Learn more about him at Frankhyman.com.

Dr. Jacquie Jacob

Dr. Jacquie Jacob is a poultry Extension associate at the University of Kentucky and works with all types of poultry production from backyard flocks to large commercial operations.

Jacquie received her B.S. in poultry management from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. After completing her degree, she spent four and a half years working on a poultry project in Mozambique, Africa. She received her master’s and doctorate from UBC in monogastric nutrition. Although her doctorate is from UBC, Jacquie completed her Ph.D. research at the University of Nairobi in Kenya.

Jacquie has worked with poultry Extension programs in Florida, Minnesota, and currently in Kentucky.

Joel Salatin

Joel Salatin took over his parents’ 550-acre farm in 1982 and now runs Polyface Farms. He regularly writes and speaks about nitty-gritty how-to for profitable regenerative farming, as well as cultural philosophy on farming and life. You can follow Joel on his blog.

Jonathon Engels

Jonathon Engels is a traveler, writer, and vegan gardener. Born and raised in Louisiana, he’s lived as an expat for over a decade, worked in nearly a dozen countries, and visited dozens of others in between. His interests include permaculture, cooking, and music. More of his work can be found at Jonathon Engels: A Life About.

Kelly Bohling

Kelly Bohling is a native of Lawrence, Kansas.  She works as a classical violinist, but in between gigs and lessons she’s out in the garden or spending time with her animals, including quail and French Angora rabbits.  Kelly also spins the Angora fiber from her rabbits into yarn for knitting, which can be found in her Etsy shop, ThreeRabbitYarns. She enjoys finding ways that her animals and garden can benefit each other for a more sustainable urban homestead. 

Liz Fulghum

Liz Fulghum is an entrepreneur and technologist who also has a passion for low-maintenance, productive gardening. Her urban backyard homestead is an oasis from busy days and home to raised vegetable beds, fruit trees and shrubs, bees, and a small flock of chickens. You can follow her on Instagram @lizfulghum. 

Maat van Uitert

Maat van Uitert is the founder of the backyard chicken and duck blog, Pampered Chicken Mama, which reaches approximately 20 million backyard poultry enthusiasts every month. She’s also the founder of the Living The Good Life With Backyard Chickens store, which carries nesting herbs, feed, and treats for chickens and ducks. You can catch up with Maat on Facebook and Instagram .

Rachel Cunning

Rachel Cunning is a Latin, English, and ESL teacher. She loves to grow what she loves to eat just as much as she likes cooking it, and she’s equally committed to cultivating native plants and pollinator gardens. She blogs mostly about her adventures in suburban homesteading, including beekeeping, chickens, gardening, and food preservation, at Honeyed Homestead, but she’s not above nerding out about Latin or describing her forays into the wilderness there too.