WOW: So tell us, I mean I don’t want to steal your thunder – I seem to know more about you than you do at this moment, but you come from a fantastic family background that makes you just right to have written this important book. Maybe you just tell us a little bit about your grandfather and your dad.
MARIA: It’s my pleasure to tell you. My grandfather is considered the founder of the organic movement in America. He started publishing Organic Gardening magazine in 1942 and his interest in organic came from his own health problems. He and his whole family suffered from health problems and he had made his money on the side … well, his business was actually electrical engineering, so publishing became his kind of hobby. And the organic movement became to him the way to address his own personal health issues, and he wanted to share that with the rest of the world. So he started it, my father then continued the tradition and both of them wrote numerous books, and we still publish Organic Gardening magazine today. It’s a great magazine and it’s core to our whole philosophy as both a family and as a company.
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