Helen Whybrow

Helen is a journalist, essayist, editor and farmer. At Knoll Farm in Vermont, she and her husband have devoted their lives to creating nurturing, inclusive and inspiring land-based refuge with people working on the forefront of social and environmental justice. Her writing explores the intersection of land and identity, ancestral memory and belonging, stewardship and kinship. At Mesa Refuge, Helen worked on a collection of essays about shepherding called The Salt Stones, two of which have won creative nonfiction awards. She is Editor-at-Large at Orion Magazine and book editor for Milkweed Editions. She is co-author of A Man Apart: Bill Coperthwaite’s Radical Experiment in Living as well as editor of several anthologies including Hearth and Coming to Land in a Troubled World.