Lydia Noyes is an Appalachian homesteader and full time freelance writer that originally hails from the flat lands of West Michigan. You can find her work in dozens of natural living magazines and websites, including Mother Earth News, Grit Magazine, Natural Cave, and her personal blog livingechoblog.com. When not tied down to her computer, Lydia can be found going on long walks in the woods with her two puppies, tending to her quarter acre garden or throwing food scraps to her ever-increasing flock of chickens.