ASHLEY ENGLISH is a lifelong cook, baker, and gardener with a wide breadth of knowledge on issues of sustainability and foodways. She has earned degrees in both holistic nutrition and sociology. She is a member of Slow Food USA and has worked over the years with a number of non-profit organizations committed to social and agricultural issues. She maintains a blog at www.small-measure.blogspot.com and a bi-monthly column at Design*Sponge (200K regular readers). Her Homemade Living series (Lark) launched in Spring 2010 includes four books total. She has regular columns in the new magazines Where Women Cook and Taproot. Ashley and her husband currently reside in Candler, NC, with their young son and a menagerie of chickens, dogs, cats, and bees, where they are converting their land into a thriving homestead.
Johnny Autry's work has been featured in Victuals by Ronni Lundy, Poole's by Ashley Christensen, and Buxton Hall Barbeque's Book of Smoke by Elliot Moss, as well as in Bon Appetit, Cooking Light, Southern Living, Better Homes & Gardens, GQ, and more.