Abbie's Bio

Abbie is mother to one-year-old Joshua, wife to Ed, an environmentalist and teacher who believes in following her maternal instincts and being a steward to the Earth. After going back to work when Joshua was six months old, Abbie successfully expressed milk until his first birthday.  Since then, Abbie happily retired the pump and has continued to breastfeed on-cue when she’s not at work.  She is proud to have nursed Joshua exclusively for his first six months, introduced solids through baby led weaning, and plans to continue to nurse Joshua until he self-weans.  Abbie believes breastmilk is the original local food and has found babywearing and co-sleeping to be survival mechanisms.  

She was raised on her family’s 300-year-old farm in Connecticut, where she learned to love animals and nature. She holds both a BS and MS in Biology and Secondary Education, and has taught Biology, Environmental Science, Botany and Forensic Science at the high school level for the last eight years. She supports sustainable living, shops from local farms, cooks from scratch, gardens, reads, writes, and crafts in her spare time, and blogs about it at Farmer’s Daughter - http://farmersdaughterct.wordpress.com.