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Oregon Business Plan Committee and Rural Idaho Entrepreneur Recognized for Leadership in Sustainability and Conservation, Sustainable Northwest, March 2008

MaryJane Butters Guns for Organic DIYers, Media Buyer Planner, March 2008

MaryJane Butters: Her Own Personal Idaho, Change Magazine, March 2008

High-fructose corn syrup may be the next target, Spokesman Review, January 2008

Utah Native Built an Organic Farming Empire, Salt Lake Tribune, Thanksgiving Day, 2007

If Martha Stewart ran a B&B ... It Might Look a Lot Like MaryJane Butters' Four-star Spread in the Hills of Idaho, Chicago Tribune, September 2007

Farm fantasy: Area families get their fill of fresh fruits and vegetables as part of MaryJanesFarm U-Pick Country Club, Moscow-Pullman Daily News, September 2007

MaryJanesFarm Among the "Best of Summer: Rooms with a View " from Country Living, Country Living, August 2007

Growing Organic, Horizon Air Magazine, August 2007

Summer Contra Dances Bring Blaine Schoolhouse Back to Life, Moscow-Pullman Daily News, August 2007

Kids in the Kitchen, Spokesman Review, August 2007

1,000 Places to See Before You Die in the U.S. and Canada, July 2007

Home of the Beautiful - Romantic Homes Magazine, July 2007

Pro Crochet - Spokane Inlander, June 2007

Little Heathens - Book jacket endorsement by MaryJane Butters, June 2007

• News from the Book World, June 2007: MaryJane writes forewords for three great new books
   Costco's Household Almanac
   Women of the Harvest: Inspiring Stories of Contemporary Farmers
   Traditional American Farming Techniques

Down on MaryJane's Farm - More Magazine, June 2007

Naturally Gifted - Vogue Magazine, May 2007

MaryJane's Stitching Room on Bookshelves May 2007 - Amazon.com, May 2007

Roughaging It: Getaways Where You Do the Picking - New York Times Style Magazine, Spring 2007

Genesee couple hope to share Palouse ecosystem with others - Lewiston Tribune, April 2007

Feather Your Nest Bed & Bath Special Issue - Country Home Magazine, March 2007

Bedding Down - Domino Magazine, March 2007

Community Supported Agriculture - Moscow Food Co-op News, March 2007

Homestead Launches MaryJanesFarm Home This Spring - PR Newswire, October 2006

By the Numbers - Moscow-Pullman Daily News, September 2006

Making Fitness Pay - Lewiston Tribune, September 2006

Tapping fields of gold: Backed by governor and hailed by Bush, burgeoning biodiesel industry may be ready for a breakthrough - Lewiston Morning Tribune, February 2006

Using Her Green Thumb - IQ Idaho, September 2005

Paved With Love - from House to Home, Fall 2005

Worth a Stop - Northwest Travel, September/October 2005

The Farmgirl Life - from Dirt, by garden writer Amy Stewart , September 2005

The Leader of the Farmgirl Pack - the Chicago Tribune, front page of Sunday Home & Garden section, July 24, 2005

MaryJane Butters selected as a featured expert for The Experts’ Guide to Life at Home!

In Her First Book, Author Preaches a Slowed-down Life - Lewiston Tribune, August 2005

Organic.org Farmer Profile - Organic.org, August 2005

Right at Home at the Stitchin’ Post - Moscow-Pullman Daily News, August 2005

Food for Thought: Book Reviews - Field & Feast Magazine, August 2005

On Top of the World - Country Home magazine, July 2005 (September 2005 issue)

Farmgirls Rock! - the The Community Current Newspaper, St. John, Washington, June/July 2005

Can a guy become a farmgirl? - the Missoula Independent, and also the Anchorage Press and the Billings Outpost, July 2005

Idaho People Profile – MaryJane Butters - Community Magazine, July 2005

Woman's home-based business turns into flourishing enterprise: The new face of full-time farming - the Capital Press, July 2005

COOKBOOK CORNER: This farmgirl thinks recipes stand out in Butters' book - the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, July 2005

Books Offer Vacation Flavors - AP article printed in the Cincinnati Post, July 2005; also in the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger, the Bradenton [Florida] Herald

What the heartland can offer those on the coasts - from the Christian Science Monitor, July 2005

Front Porch: Bringing Home to the Beach - from the St. Petersburg Times, July 2005

One Farmgirl to Another - Domestic Diva of Organic Living Offers Tips, Recipes, Stories for "the farmgirl in all of us" - from The Missoulian, July 2005

Rural-urban Connection - AP article printed in the Capital Press, July 2005; also in the Olympian

Tie One On - Country Living magazine, June 2005

Summer Magic - excerpt from "MaryJane's Ideabook, Cookbook, Lifebook" in Family Circle, June 2005

Moscow farmgirl brings her book tour to Boise - from KTVB, Boise, Idaho, June 2005

Spreading the Word - from the Conde Nast Traveller, UK edition, June 2005

Streamlining Domesticity - from the Hartford Courant, June 2005

She's Cultivating the Urbanites - from The Oregonian, June 2005

Putting a Face to Food - from Renewing the Countryside (www.renewingthecountryside.org), June 2005

Butters Churns Huge Interest in Organic Farming - from Chicago Sun Times, June 2005

Growing Organically and Cultivating Fame in Rural Moscow - from Idaho Magazine, June 2005

Rural Revolution - from The Pacific Northwest Inlander, May 2005

Her Own Private Idaho — Butters' Book Relishes Rural Life - from the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, May 2005

Offering Praise and Prose for the Farming Life - from the Lexington, Kentucky, Herald Leader, May 2005

Butters' Book Provides Lifestyle Advice, Inspiration - from the Spokesman Review, May 2005

Successful Women Share Their Secrets at Agri-business Forum - from Moscow-Pullman Daily News, March 2005

Icon: MaryJane Butters Cultivates the Farmgirl in Us All with Her Upcoming Book - from style.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazines, March 2005

Higher Ground - from Elle Travel, February 2005

Idaho Farmgirl Makes it Big Selling Organic Foods - from Idaho's News Channel 7, November 8, 2004

A Taste of Farm Life - from Bellevue Club Reflections, August, 2004

Natural Growth - from House & Garden, August, 2004

Say it With Flowers, or Go Milk Their Cow - from The New York Times, June 6, 2004

MaryJane Butters Serves up Good, Wholesome Living - from World Ark Magazine, May/June 2004

The Simple Life: Down-to-earth getaways at local farms - from Western Journey, the Magazine for AAA Members, May/June 2004

Many Waiting for Chance at Domesticity Throne - from Daytona Beach News-Journal Online, May 11, 2004

Auditioning Marthas - from Forbes.com, March 15, 2004

Replacing Martha - from the Los Angeles Daily News, March 8, 2004

MaryJane in Time Magazine - 2004 Style & Design special issue

· MaryJane on Bloomberg Radio - January 15, 2004

· Move Over Martha - from the Financial Times, December 22, 2003

· The Next Martha Stewart Waiting in the Wings - from Marketplace, Public Radio International, December 22, 2003

· All Things MaryJane - Associated Press article, Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Moscow, Idaho, 11/8/03. This AP article has also run in the following papers and other media outlets across the country:

  • King 5 TV website, Seattle, Washington, 11/8/03, "Idaho Woman Positions Self as Stewart Successor"
  • Northwest Cable News, 11/8/03, "Idaho Woman Positions Self as Stewart Successor"
  • Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho, 11/8/03, "Moscow Woman Positions Self as Stewart Successor"
  • Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah, 11/8/03, "Ogden Native Lands $1.3 Million Do-It-Yourself Book Deal"
  • The Olympian, Olympia, Washington, 11/9/03, "Idaho Woman is Rural Martha Stewart Successor"
  • Independent Record, Helena, Montana, 11/9/03, "Idaho Woman Positions Self as Stewart Successor"
  • The Daily Missoulian, Missoula, Montana, 11/10/03, "Rural Martha"
  • Idaho State Journal, Pocatello, Idaho, 11/11/03, "Move Over, Martha"
  • Billings Gazette, Billings, Montana, 11/11/03, "Idaho Woman Positions Self as Stewart's Rural Successor"
  • Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah, 11/11/03, "Move Over Martha: Native Utahn May Be Next Domestic Maven--With a Rural Twist"
  • Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, 11/12/03, "The Rise of a Rural Martha Stewart"
  • Montana Standard, Butte, Montana, 11/15/03, "Idaho Woman Positions Self as Stewart Successor"
  • Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona, 11/16/03, "A Rural Martha Stewart: Idaho farmer is new face of home ec"
  • Peninsula-Clarion, Kenai, Alaska, 11/20/03, "U.S. farming woman aspires to be next Martha Stewart"
  • Daytona News-Journal, Daytona Beach, Florida, 11/20/03, "A Farming Woman in Middle America Aspires to Be Next Martha Stewart"
  • Modesto Bee, Modesto, California, 11/21/03, "A Homespun Martha Replacement"
  • Corvallis Gazette-Times, Corvallis, Oregon, 11/22/03, "Selling the Good (Rural) Life"
  • Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, 11/23/03, "To Compare MaryJane to Martha Misses the Mark"
  • Courier and Press, Evansville, Illinois, 11/23/03, "Idaho Farmer Aspires to be Next Martha Stewart"
  • St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, Florida, 11/23/03, "Churning a Profit"
  • Record Searchlight, Redding, California, 11/23/03, "Rural Woman Resurrecting Domestic Skills"
  • CJAD Radio website, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 11/23/03, "A Farming Woman in Middle America Aspires to Be the Next Martha Stewart"
  • Canada.com (Canadian national website), 11/23/03, "Butters Aims to be Next Martha Stewart"
  • Bell Canada's portal website, 11/23/03, "A Farming Woman in Middle America Aspires to be the Next Martha Stewart"
  • Suburban Chicago News Group (The Beacon News, The Courier News, The
    Herald News, The News Sun), Chicago, Illinois, 11/23/03, "A Farming Woman in Middle America Aspires to be the Next Martha Stewart"
  • Palm Springs Desert Sun, Palm Springs, California, 11/23/03, "A Farming Woman Aspires to be the Next Martha Stewart"
  • Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington, 11/27/03, "A Rural Martha Stewart in Idaho?"
  • Houston Chronicle, Houston, Texas, 11/27/03, "A Taste of Rural Life"
  • Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, 11/27/03, "Next Martha Grows in Idaho"
  • Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minnesota, 11/29/03, "Rural Woman Might be the Next Martha Stewart"
  • Aliant Communications Company website, New Brunswick, Canada, 12/3/03, "A Farming Woman in Middle America Aspires to be the Next Martha Stewart"
  • The Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 12/3/03, "Modeling After Martha"
  • The Bennington Banner, Bennington, Vermont, 12/6/03, "Woman Aspires to be the Next Martha"
  • Star Telegram, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, 12/7/03, "Up on the Farm"
  • The Bryan-College Station Eagle, Bryan, Texas, 12/7/03, "Rural Living Gets its own Martha Stewart"
  • Northwest Indiana Times, Munster, Indiana, 12/14/03, "A Farming Woman in Middle America Aspires to be the Next Martha Stewart"
  • Tacoma News-Tribune, Tacoma, Washington, 1/4/04, "Rural Style Reaps Big Bucks"

· Farmer Grows a $1 Million Book Deal - from the Spokesman Review, October 15, 2003. This article also ran in the following newspapers.

  • Lewiston Morning Tribune, Lewiston, Idaho,10/17/03
  • Latah Eagle, Moscow, Idaho, 10/23/03
  • Capital Press, Salem, Oregon, 11/14/03

· Big Deal for Idaho Editor - from Publisher's Weekly, October 2003

· A Taste of Idaho - from Horizon Air Magazine, October 2003

· Backpacker Picks Top 10 New Foods - from Backpacker Magazine, June 2003

· Butters Appointed By USDA To Help Give Away 4 Million Dollars - Press Release, March 2003

· Service Magic Gives Props to MaryJanesFarm - from Service Magic by Ron Zemke and Chip Bell, published 2003

· Talk with MaryJane Butters LIVE on WISDOM® Radio - March 13, 2003

· Homeland Hash - from U.S. News & World Report, March 10, 2003

· The New Face of Organic Living - from Boise Weekly, December 2002

· Ogden Resident Patents Invention - from Salt Lake Tribune, December 2002

· Local Students Could Hit "Pay Dirt" With New Recipe - from KLEW-TV, October 2002

· MaryJane Butters Named Small Businessperson of the Year - from the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, October 2002

· Natural Wonders: Singing the Praises of the Palouse - from The Seattle Times, October 2002

· Welcome to Paradise - from The Pacific Northwest Inlander, October 2002

· The Search for Good Travel Food - from RV Life, October 2002

· Moscow Chamber Chooses MaryJane Butters Small Business Person of the Year - Moscow Chamber of Commerce Business Journal, October 2002

· Nick Ogle: Man from Blaine - From the Latah Eagle, September 2002

· Going organic -- Interest in farming, love of the land leads former military man to a more pastoral pursuit - Pat Vaughan, Pay Dirt Farm School Graduate
From the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, September 2002

· Biz Bits - From the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, September 2002

· TV Shows and Magazines - from the Moscow Food Co-op Community News, August 2002

· Do You Want to Become a Food Entrepreneur? New Research Kitchen Opens at MaryJanesFarm - from the Moscow Food Co-op Community News, August 2002

· Healthy Hiking For You and the Earth - from the North Coast Co-op News, Arcata, Calif., July-August 2002

· Moscow organic farm awarded USDA grant; Mustard meal will be used as fertilizer - from the Lewiston Tribune, July 2002

· Seeking Simplicity: MaryJanesFarm ranks above Organic Style, Martha Stewart Living, and Real Simple, etc. How well do major Home and Garden publications do when it comes to advocating simpler living? - from The Pacific Northwest Inlander, March 2002

·Organic Farms Grow in Idaho and Nationwide - from the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, March 2002

· Organics Take Root in Idaho - from the Idaho Statesman, January 2002

· MaryJane's green dream realized; Following footsteps of Martha Stewart, organic entrepreneur launches magazine - from the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, January 2002

· Their Organic Mixes are Naturally Good - from Light & Tasty Magazine, January 2002

· A Magazine from Moscow - from the Moscow Food Co-op Community News, December 2001

· Butters is awarded Idaho Progressive Businessperson of the Year - from the Lewiston Morning Tribune, December 30, 2001

· Lewiston Tribune articles from December 2001:

  • Natural Woman
  • Life & Times of MaryJane Butters

· Local Home-Grown Business Receives National Attention - from the Latah Eagle, November 2001

· National Geographic Touts Area - from the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, October 2001

· The Palouse · Country Unbound · 50 Places of a Lifetime, America - from National Geographic Traveler, October 2001

· Woman Turned Family Farm Into Organic Business - from OmPlace.com

· Founders of a New Northwest - Sustainable Northwest, 1999

· A Farming Revolution - National Geographic, December 1995


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