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MaryJane Butters (born May 6, 1953) is the internationally recognized organic farmer, book author, environmental activist, and food manufacturer behind the self-titled ''MaryJanesFarm'' magazine.〔Boggs, Sheri. “Rural Revolution.” ''The Pacific Northwest Inlander,'' May 2005.〕 Working from her family farm in Moscow, ID, and through her websites, Butters has achieved success through a variety of business ventures relating to the domestic arts, organic farming, and a grassroots self-sufficiency movement directed at creating a rural revival.〔Monson, Ali. “Idaho People Profile: MaryJane Butters.” ''Community Magazine,'' July 2005.〕 Butters is now a fast-growing lifestyle brand with media mentions in outlets such as the ''Food Network,''〔“Local Home-Grown Business Receives National Attention.” ''Latah Eagle,'' 22 Nov. 2001.〕 ''PBS,'' ''NPR,'' ''House & Garden,'' ''Country Living,'' ''The New Yorker,'' ''Country Home,''〔Outen, Alyson. “Using Her Green Thumb: MaryJane Butters.” ''IQ Idaho,'' Sept. 2005.〕 ''The Chicago Tribune,'' ''Vogue,''〔Mayfield-Geiger, Sue. “MaryJane Butters: Her Own Personal Idaho.” ''Change Magazine,'' Mar. 2008.〕 and other national publications. Her farm and business were famously immortalized in a large spread in the December 1995 issue of ''National Geographic.''〔“National Geographic touts area.” ''Moscow-Pullman Daily News,'' Oct. 2001.〕 ==Early life== MaryJane Butters was the next to the youngest of five children born to Mormon parents Allen and Helen Butters.〔Barrett, Jennifer. “Utah native built an organic farming empire.” ''The Salt Lake Tribune,'' 22 Nov. 2007.〕 Her 1950s upbringing is often described as “unconventional” because the family raised their own food, made their own clothing, and “went nomadic on weekends, setting up camp in the wild to fish and hunt for their meat.”〔Jackson, Kimberly L. “For women of the great outdoors.” ''The Star Ledger,'' 3 July 2008.〕 Butters credits her father, a “home teacher” for the LDS church, with teaching her carpentry and organic gardening, and her mother, a leader in the neighborhood women’s Relief Society, with teaching her homemaking, fishing, and camping.〔Barrett, Jennifer. “Utah native built an organic farming empire.” ''The Salt Lake Tribune,'' 22 Nov. 2007.〕 "It seems that everything we did involved food," Butters has said, and every year, her family preserved a basement of food with cans brought home from the can factory where her father worked.〔“Local Home-Grown Business Receives National Attention.” ''Latah Eagle,'' 22 Nov. 2001.〕 Sara Devins, a colleague and childhood friend, described the family as “independent and practical in every sense of the word.”〔Ryan, Erin. “The New Face of Organic Living.” ''Boise Weekly,'' Dec. 2002.〕 In 1971, Butters graduated from Ben Lomond High School in Ogden, Utah.〔Stephenson, Kathy. “Welcome Butters, a down-home guru.” ''The Salt Lake Tribune,'' 10 Aug. 2008.〕 She worked at a short-lived secretarial job until she could find outdoor work. In 1972, Butters took a job in a mountaintop lookout tower in Weippe, Idaho, as a Clearwater-Potlatch Timber Protective Association fire watcher.〔Williams, Elaine. “Timeline: Natural woman.” ''Lewiston Morning Tribune,'' Dec. 2001.〕 When her job ended, she enrolled in the forestry program at Utah State University, but walked out in the middle of her art history course, never to return.〔London, Bill. “Farm Life with MaryJane Butters.” www.MaryJanesFarm.org.〕 In 1974, Butters became one of three women to be the first female wilderness rangers in the U.S., and she maintained trails and cleaned sheepherder camps in the Uinta Mountains of northern Utah.〔London, Bill. “Farm Life with MaryJane Butters.” www.MaryJanesFarm.org.〕 After that summer, she earned her carpentry proficiency certificate and was hired as the only woman on a crew building houses at Hill Air Force Base.〔London, Bill. “Farm Life with MaryJane Butters.” www.MaryJanesFarm.org.〕 Early in 1976, Butters became the first woman station guard at the Moose Creek Ranger Station, the most remote Forest Service District in the continental U.S.〔Williams, Elaine. “Timeline: Natural woman.” ''Lewiston Morning Tribune,'' Dec. 2001.〕 It was here that Butters met Emil Keck, the legendary fire-control officer and construction-crew chief who lived at the wilderness station year round. Keck became her mentor and the namesake for her second child. Butters has said of Keck, “He taught me how to work hard, and how to make work my life.”〔Choate, Loralee. “Featured Bio: MaryJane Butters of ‘MaryJanesFarm.’” ''Where Women Cook,'' Dec. 2010.〕 In 1978, MaryJane and her husband, John McCarthy, became ranch hands on the 30,000-acre Hitchcock Ranch in Idaho’s rugged Hells Canyon region. Their first child, Megan, was born In 1979, and four years later, on Emil Keck's birthday, their son, Emil, was born.〔"Local Home-Grown Business Receives National Attention.” ''Latah Eagle,'' 22 Nov. 2001.〕 In 1986, she bought her remote, five-acre “Paradise Farm” in Idaho’s Palouse region.〔Barrett, Jennifer. “Utah native built an organic farming empire.” ''The Salt Lake Tribune,'' 22 Nov. 2007.〕 Her marriage ended in divorce shortly after,〔Barrett, Jennifer. “Utah native built an organic farming empire.” ''The Salt Lake Tribune,'' 22 Nov. 2007.〕 and Butters spent the next years raising her children on her own with no indoor plumbing, no television, and only wood heat.〔Barrett, Jennifer. “Utah native built an organic farming empire.” ''The Salt Lake Tribune,'' 22 Nov. 2007.〕 She supported the family on homegrown crops and a seamstress’, upholsterer’s, and carpenter’s salary.〔Spurling, Carol. “MaryJane Butters and MaryJanesFarm.” Plum Assignment, www.plumassignment.net.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MaryJane Butters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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