Kathy Blakeslee is a naturalist and holds degrees in botany, nutrition, and eco-design.  She has a passion for growing herbs, organic gardening, phto-medicine along with teaching conscious nutrition.  Her passions have given birth to her organic farm named Ashbury Herb Gardens which she created in 1994.  This organic & bio-dynamic herb farm is tucked away in the rolling hils of Baraboo in Sauk Country, Wisconsin where pure artesian wells bubble out of the quartzite hills of the Baraboo Range.

Kathy's grew up in Wisconsin and has studied and lived and worked most of her adult life living in the Bay Area of San Francisco in the organic farming movement and around the world.  Kathy has now returned home to her roots in Wisconsin to live her passion of organic gardening and sharing her knowledge of living green and teaching permaculture,  a practical guide to small scale and integrative farming.  This form of sustainable living practice was created by a man from Australia named bill Mollison where Kathy has studied and lived in the 1990's.

Kathy's vision for her life is to teach how to become ecological guardians and to transform cultures from consumerism to sustainability. Her passion that she enjoys sharing is growing organic food and teaching conscious eating along with teaching how to plant your own home gardens, without the use chemicals and pesticides becoming an urban farmer.  Kathy is a certified instructor in the art of permaculture, a Master Gardener and also a licensed holistic nutritionist and considers herself now to be an Eco Activist. Kathy's vision for her life is to teach how to become ecological guardians and to transform cultures from consumerism to sustainability. Her passion is the preservation of nature, teaching how to plant your own vegetable garden and how to become an urban farmer along while adopingt a lifestyle of conscious living and going green. She is a certified instructor permaculture design from the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center in Sonoma Country in Califorrnia, a Master Gardener, holds a B.S. in Eco Design,is an ethno-botanist and also a licensed holistic nutritionist considering herself to be an Eco Activist.

Kathy now spends much of her life now at her herb farm in Baraboo, Wisconsin where she has created an organic farm called Ashbury Herb Gardens in the 1990's and sells her herb plants  at the Dane County farmers market in Madison, Wisconsin.   Kathy has  lived in Australia where she was introduced to and studied Permaculture.   She has worked at Smith and Hawken in Mill Valley, CA and has lived an taught at Esalen Institute in Big Sur.  She is an active member of Marin Organics as well as  Bioneers and the Pachamama Alliance all in Marin Caifornia. Kathy is a charter member of the International Herb Growers and Marketing Assoication which began in 1982,

Kathy has been featured on the cover's  Grower's Talks, Cooking Light and also Horticulture magazines among  many others. . Kathy has since earned a Master's degree in Etho-Botany  and also a degree in Eco Design from the University on Minnesote in the 1970's and is currently is a Nutrition and Life Style Coach and has her certication from OACA in Sabastapol, California in Permaculture Design.