Michelle Hueser, Editor
Michelle found her way back to the Twin Cities after spending part of her childhood in Oklahoma, and putting her degree in theater arts to use working behind the scenes at the Santa Fe Opera and other theaters in Florida, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Upon returning to Minnesota, she has gotten involved in both her wildlife and fellow-human communities. She has been a volunteer since 1994 on the "flight crew" of the Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota where she helps rehabilitate injured eagles, hawks, owls and falcons for their release back to the wild. And she has recently acquired a much-coveted plot at her local community garden (an original WWII Victory Garden). As a volunteer Big Sister, she looks forward to "digging in the dirt with my 'little sister' and seeing if she is as fascinated as I still am that a garden full of food starts as just a few tiny seeds". Michelle trades a full-time job in customer service at a trade show company to focus on Edible Twin Cities because, as she says, "The Twin Cities area is rich in a diverse array of small farms and food-producers and I feel that our publication can help the Twin Cities community discover that and get to know what is in their own backyard. I look forward to meeting more of the local food community myself and seeing all that it has to teach me about eating local".

Ken Hueser, Contributor
Ken Hueser is a 44 year-old architectural technician who has lived in
the Twin Cities his entire life. His interests are food, wine, music and a couple of aging Italian motorcycles. He aspires to living a small-scale, anti-consumerist lifestyle and is passionate about culinary regionalism and making eating the principle ritual of each day.

Carol Banks, Publisher
Carol is as native to the Twin Cities as can be, having grown up in the area, and after short jaunts to other places, returning to roost in a place only two miles away from where she was born and raised. Carol has a profound interest in the environment and arts. Carol's most recent jobs reflect this. She worked in the arts industry, and ran a small business and photo gallery for twelve years. During this time, she co-founded Women Photographers and Visual Artists (WPVA) a Twin Cities organization which serves to bridge the commercial and artistic photographic communities to provide greater opportunities for women artists. Carol also worked as a volunteer and then staff member at the Raptor Center. Here she gained a deep appreciation of the complexities surrounding wildlife and environmental issues. At the Raptor Center, she met and became fast friends with Michelle Hueser; this friendship was fertile ground for the seeds for Edible Twin Cities to take hold.

Chuck Banks, Contributor
Chuck has always had an appreciation for good food that he attributes in great measure to his parents, who both grew up in small farming communities in the Midwest. Chuck was the beneficiary of his mother's education in home economics, which made her creative in the kitchen and adventurous in her explorations of the different international cuisines available in the Twin Cities. His father taught him the joys of harvesting seasonal crops from the backyard garden. Chuck's work history includes technical avionics, owning a small business, and a turn in the mortgage industry. His main hobby is motorcycle touring. Chuck considers himself to be a "foodie" and is eager to learn more about the advantages of buying local, seasonal produce with respect to taste and nutrition. He hopes to meld his interests in food, small business and motorcycle touring with his new role as an Edible Twin Cities publisher and writer. "The number one industry in Minnesota is agriculture. As a businessman touring around on my motorcycle, I wondered about the differences between family farms and corporate farms and the issues that separate them," says Chuck. He will certainly be delving into this in future Edible Twin Cities publications.