Shannon Hayes

WARNING: BLENDING AUTHENTICITY WITH JOY MAY AROUSE CONTEMPT. Shannon Hayes writes, farms, homeschools and operates a community cafe with three generations of her family on Sap Bush Hollow Farm in West Fulton, NY, where she grew up. The family raises all-natural grassfed lamb, beef, pork, and poultry. She holds a BA in creative writing from Binghamton University, and a Masters and PhD in Sustainable Agriculture and Community Development from Cornell. Shannon is the author of several books: The Grassfed Gourmet, Farmer and the Grill, and Radical Homemakers, Long Way on a Little, Cooking Grassfed Beef & Homespun Mom Comes Unraveled. Shannon's essays and articles have appeared in myriad regional and national publications, including The New York Times, The Boston Review, and Northeast Public Radio. Hayes' quirky lifestyle, her controversial attempts to live a life of personal accountability and sustainability, and her current research and writings about homemaking, farming, small business and community engagement have landed her and her family on the pages of the New York Times, Brain Child Magazine, Lancaster Farming, Small Farm Quarterly, Hobby Farm Home Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, American Public Media, Grit, national television, Yes! Magazine, Elle Magazine, the national newspapers of Germany, Turkey and Canada, Arab News and the Pakistan Observer. Shannon's podcast, The Hearth of Sap Bush Hollow is released every week, along with her blog, which can be found on Sapbush.com. Questions and speaking requests can be made directly through sapbush.com. Selected previous venues: ACRES USA American Dietetic Association National Conference, Philadelphia, PA Citizens Alliance for Responsible Ecofarming, Lancaster, PA Cornell University Eno-Terra Restaurant, Kingston, NJ GRAZE-Fest Alabama, U.S. Grassfed Society JUST FOOD Mansfield University New York City Watershed Agricultural Council Farm to Market Conference New York State Grasstravaganza Annual Conference Northeast Organic Farmers Association-NY Annual Conference Northeast Organic Farmers Association-VT Annual Conference Organic Valley Kickapoo Country Fair Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association State University of New York at Albany State University of New York at Cobleskill State University of New York at Oneonta Vermont Grassfarmers Annual Conference Virginia Independent Farmers and Consumers Farm-Food Voices annual meeting Whole Earth Center, Princeton New Jersey Williams College Wisconsin Graziers Annual Conference Weston A Price Foundation