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  "MaryJane's Everyday Organic TM," A New United Feature Syndicate Column by MaryJane
 Butters, Offers Simple Solutions for Buying Less, Eating Better and Getting More Out of Life

NEW YORK, August 21­ MaryJane's Everyday Organic is a new weekly column that delivers simple
yet sophisticated advice on how to live better and enjoy life more while doing right by the environment.
The American organic original, MaryJane Butters speaks to every woman who has ever fantasized
about living on a farm ­ or bringing the healthy, safe, homegrown aspects of farm living into their
daily lives. MaryJane's Everyday Organic, distributed through United Feature Syndicate, starts in
newspapers September 8.


MaryJane's premise is that anybody can be a farmgirl if they really want to. It's not about where
you live, but how you live. MaryJane's Everyday Organic offers concrete suggestions for adding a
little fresh air to daily life with easy-to-follow farm kitchen recipes, directions for simple homemade
solutions and projects to do around the house. Plus photos.


"I know it's out of the ordinary, but it's true. I'm an organic farmer AND the editor of a women's
magazine and author of books. And now I'm a newspaper columnist," says Butters. "Here is where I'll
share my ideas, gardening tips, crafting, sewing, carpentry, home decorating, entertaining ideas and
simple solutions for everyday organic. The inspiration for this column was born when a woman told
me, `I wish I could have your life!' I thought, `Why not?'"


Ever since Butters moved to her Idaho farm 20 years ago, she has played around with recipes for
organic fast food. While feeding her family and farm crew and perfecting a solution for the dilemma of
what-to-cook, she dreamed up MaryJanesFarm magazine, a women's magazine where women share
solutions, show off talents, and just talk.


Deborah Needleman, former Editor of House & Garden magazine and current Editor-in-Chief of
Domino magazine, says, "MaryJanesFarm is charming and well done--hugely appealing. It is homey,
and smart and interesting ... part Martha Stewart Living, part Oprah magazine, part Organic Style,
part Nation, part Ladies Home Journal ... full of tips, ideas, and information."
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Butters' magazine eventually landed on the desk of a literary agent in New York who encouraged
her to write a book sharing her message of simple, everyday organic living. MaryJane's Ideabook,
Cookbook, Lifebook - For the Farmgirl in All of Us was published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers,
a division of Random House, in 2005. Its pages are filled with more than 600 photographs and
illustrations; farm kitchen recipes; make-it-easy how to's; outpost advice; and old-fashioned tips,
hints and values--with love, from her farmhouse to yours. Her newest book, MaryJane's Outpost -
Unleashing Your Inner Wild, is in stores June 2008. No matter what your age, MaryJane shows exactly
HOW to get outdoors--and what to do once you're there.


MaryJane Butters was born and raised in a self-sufficient family in Utah, growing their own food and
sewing their own clothes. Over the years, she worked as the only woman on a carpentry crew at Hill
Air Force Base, one of the first woman wilderness rangers hired by the U.S. Forest Service, and the
first woman station guard at the Moose Creek Ranger Station--the most remote forest service district
in the continental United States. After the birth of her two children, MaryJane began searching for the
farm of her dreams. In 1985, she found a remote five-acre homestead at the end of a long dirt road
on the suitably named Paradise Ridge just southeast of Moscow, Idaho. Eager to promote sustainable
agriculture and actively support local farming, in 1993 she launched a line of organic foods now sold
nationwide under the MaryJanesFarm label. The first issue of the women's magazine MaryJanesFarm
hit stores in January 2002 and is now distributed nationwide.


Environmental activist and organic farmer, Butters is a pioneer of sustainability and conservation. She
is the founder of a thriving environmental group, has developed a diverse array of organic products,
and runs a rural enterprise that has been featured in National Geographic magazine. She trains future
organic farmers through a farm apprentice program, runs a B&B that was featured in The New York
Times, designs and sells her own line of organic linens, and is the creator of Project F.A.R.M. (First-
class American Rural Made), an organization that supports rural women's handicrafts. Her Web site is
www.maryjanesfarm.org.


United Feature Syndicate is a division of United Media, the information and entertainment company
that develops and markets 150 comic strips and editorial features worldwide, including Miss
Manners, Cokie & Steven Roberts, Peanuts and Dilbert. United Media (www.unitedfeatures.com)
is a wholly owned subsidiary of The E.W. Scripps Company.
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