Mary's work has been published in Sunset Magazine and Mountain Gazette and she was a regular contributor to New Jersey Outdoors Magazine.

She is now working on documentary photo projects and photographing botanicals, like the ones displayed on the web site.

She studied herbalism with Tammi Hartung and now works as an organic herb farmer at Tammi's Desert Canyon Farm in Canon City, Colorado.

Mary was the garden manager at the Maytag Mountain Ranch in Hillside Colorado and she helped create their permaculture garden.

She's also a beekeeper with six hives, and in the future, plans to harvest both honey and beeswax for her herbal products. Healing salves, honey and beeswax candles will also be added to her herbal product line.

And, of course, Mary makes herbal soaps using herbs she grows herself. She makes aroma misters with pure essential oils, creates images for her botanical photographs and notecards, leads plant walks and teaches workshops throughout Colorado.

She lives in the mountains at 9000' in Rosita, Colorado, just east of the 14,000' peaks of the Sangre de Cristo range of the Rocky Mountains.