Anna

Anna is half of the duo behind Backyard Deer Deterrents.  It was her moaning and grousing over the state of her deer-nipped garden that spurred Mark on in his inventing.

She does a lot of her writing over on her Homesteading and Simple Living Blog and is also the co-author of Microbusiness Independence: A No-Nonsense Approach to Inventing Your Way Out of the Rat Race.

She's a biologist and artist who dreamed about moving back into the countryside ever since her parents dragged her kicking and screaming from their family farm at the ripe old age of eight.  She admits that her childhood memories of farming don't really match reality --- real farm life involves a lot more hard work than the eight year old was involved in!  But the reality is also much more fulfilling and she loves harvesting her own vegetables, pigging out on sun-warmed strawberries, and bathing in the yard.  (There are many perks to living in a secluded setting.)

Check out some of her recent nature art.