Ellen Sandbeck author of Green Housekeeping is our Green Expert!
Ellen Sandbeck was born in San Francisco in 1958, raised in Marin County, and graduated from the College of Creative Studies at U.C. Santa Barbara in 1979 with a B.A. in studio art. After graduation she quickly learned what “starving artist” meant.
She and her future husband started an organic landscaping business in the S.F. Bay Area in 1980. They started with tools bought on credit from their first client, and commuted to their first job (tools and all) via the B.A.R.T. (Bay Area Rapid Transit).
Huge amounts of library and field research helped Ellen Sandbeck formulate a philosophy and practice of organic landscaping which was efficient, healthy, and fun. Ms. Sandbeck lost 35 pounds in her first year of landscaping, without dieting or other exercise.
Ellen Sandbeck and her husband moved to Duluth, Minnesota in 1985, in search of a slower pace of life. Their family has now expanded to include two children (now grown), two dogs, tens of thousands of composting worms, and several laying hens.
Ms. Sandbeck grows and sells composting worms and has set up worm composting systems for individuals, schools, businesses, and the Federal Prison Camp in Duluth, where a one hundred foot long bin is used to compost food waste from the camp.
Ms. Sandbeck has been on the following shows: National Public Radio’s ‘All Things Considered‘ and ‘The Splendid Table‘ ‘Mid Day’ on Minnesota Public Radio, the morning show on Wisconsin Public Radio several local A.M. radio stations the local university radio station the Discovery T.V. Channel’s ‘Home Matters,’ and "Vitality" on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Ellen Sandbeck is an organic landscaper, worm wrangler, writer, and graphic artist who lives with (and experiments on) her husband and an assortment of younger creatures which includes two mostly grown children, a couple of dogs, a small flock of laying hens, and many thousands of composting worms in Duluth, Minnesota. She is the author of Slug Bread & Beheaded Thistles and Eat More Dirt.
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