Trista Crass is a freelance writer and author homesteading in both Alaska and Hawai’i. She holds a B.A. in Global Conservation Biology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has been a field biologist, chef, teacher, farmer, seamstress, and is a reformed beauty writer. Trista is currently working on a novel, a screenplay, and her meditation practice. She covers food, parenting, travel, sustainability and self-sufficiency, wellness and even beauty--if you twist her arm.