Genevieve P. Charet is the Chicago-based writer and homesteader behind MaryJanesFarm magazine’s “Urban Homesteading” column. Her articles and essays have appeared everywhere from national magazines to blogs to her mother’s refrigerator. Genevieve grows an organic orchard and vegetable garden on her city steps, and adopts projects with wild abandon. On a given day, you might find her bubbling up kefir, culturing cheese, brewing beer or mead, baking artisan sourdough loaves, sprouting sproutables, crafting craftables, wrapping charcuterie, decorating cakes, churning butter, fermenting produce, or pickling anything that isn’t nailed down (and some things that are). The only thing she loves more than getting her hands dirty with a project is getting your hands dirty with a project, so step lightly and … too late, she heard you. Genevieve’s free-range philosophy includes being a handful, trying everything once, writing what she feels, feeling what she writes, and not caring when she laughs so loudly that people look. If she had a dollar for every time someone called her “mild-mannered,” she’d have a quarter.
Contact:
Web: www.genevievecharet.com
