Marie is a hobby farmer who lives with her family in Blue Bell Pennsylvania, with one Corgi dog, and four beautiful cats, rescued from the streets of North Philadelphia, (one of which has twenty-four toes) and enough pastured, organic chickens, ducks and geese to feed her family. Marie enjoys organic, GMO free gardening, knitting, writing, sewing, taking walks, swimming, and doing what she can do to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and friendlier place. Marie is a graduate of Germantown Academy and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary and Early Childhood Education from Gwynedd-Mercy College. She is a member of the Ambler YMCA, and Gwynedd Friends Meeting where she teaches First Day School. Marie volunteers at the The William Penn Charter School in Philadelpia, organizing service projects to feed and clothe the hungry and homeless in our area.