Mary Jane Butters Bio | Wiki
Mary Jane Butters is an American author, environmental activist, organic farmer, and food manufacturer. She is the publisher of MaryJanesFarm magazine. Mary lives with her family on a farm in Moscow, Idaho. Her farm and business were featured in the December 1995 issue of National Geographic magazine.
With an impressive string of female firsts, she has always been a pioneer. After graduating from high school in 1971, Mary was the first woman to attend the Skills Center North Trade School in Ogden, Utah, in carpentry. With a certificate of proficiency in hand, she was hired to build houses at the nearby Hill Air Force Base the only woman on the crew.
Mary Jane Butters Age
Mary was born on May 6, 1953, in Utah, United States. She is 69 years old.
Mary Jane Butters Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in (Approx. 1.65 m).
Mary Jane Butters Family
She was born and raised in Utah by her parents Allen and Helen Butters. Mary is the fourth born of five children. The family grew their own food, made their own clothing, and camped on weekends, where they fished and hunted. She credits her father with teaching her carpentry and organic gardening, and her mother with teaching her homemaking, fishing, and camping.
Mary Jane Butters Husband
Mary was first married to John McCarthy with who she had two children Megan and Emil. In 1993, married farmer Nick Ogle whose 600 acres bordered Mary’s five-acre farm in Idaho’s Palouse region on two sides. The couple later merged their landholdings. Mary’s daughter Megan, son-in-law Lucas, Ogle’s son Brian and daughter-in-law Ashley work on the farm. She has seven grandchildren.
Mary Jane Butters Education
She graduated from Ben Lomond High School in Ogden, Utah in 1971. In 1972, Mary took a job in a mountaintop lookout tower in Weippe, Idaho, as a Clearwater-Potlatch Timber Protective Association fire watcher.
She briefly studied forestry at Utah State University but dropped out. In 1974, Mary was one of three women who became the first female wilderness rangers in the U.S., maintaining trails and cleaning sheepherder camps in the Uinta Mountains of northern Utah.
Mary Jane Butters Books
-MaryJane’s Ideabook, Cookbook, Lifebook: For the Farmgirl in All of Us,
-MaryJane’s Stitching Room
-Outpost: Unleashing Your Inner Wild
-Glamping with MaryJane
-Women of the Harvest: Inspiring Stories of Contemporary Farmers
-MaryJane’s Cast Iron Kitchen
-Wild Bread: Sourdough Reinvented, Flour + Water + Air
-Moo-n Over Main Street Metropolis.
-Traditional American Farming Techniques, 2nd
Mary Jane Butters Glamping
Mary has used her bed & breakfast to diversify her business and promote the agritourism industry as well as the romanticized notion of “glamping” glamour camping, a term now widely used in the media. Her brand and merchandising rely on the notions of “glamorous camping” and feminized outdoor activities in a marketing approach she has described as “the juxtaposition of rugged and really pretty, grit and glam, diesel and absolutely darling.”
Mary Jane Butters Store
She was chosen for her Project F.A.R.M., as many of the project members’ retail products on her website and her retail store “come with a face” so that the shopper can meet the person behind the product. Readers were invited to vote for one of the 10 women to receive the magazine’s Job Genius Award and a $20,000 donation to help Mary’s organization’s continued efforts.
Mary Jane Butters Farm
In 1986, Mary bought a five-acre homestead and farmhouse at the base of Paradise Ridge in Moscow, Idaho, for $45,000. The 1905 farmhouse was destroyed by fire in 1996, but the farm continues to be the headquarters for her businesses. Mary started marketing other underused organic crops and incorporated her food business in 1993 as “Paradise Farm Organics, Inc.”
Currently, she grosses more than $1 million annually from her line of over 60 dried organic foods. In 1993, Paradise Farm changed its name to Paradise Farm Organics, Inc. to reflect its incorporation. In 1999, Mary took Paradise Farm Organics, Inc. public in an initial stock offering.
Mary Jane Butters Bed And Breakfast
Mary opened a bed & breakfast on the farm in 2004. Guests stay in “almost surreally charming” canvas wall tents furnished with hardwood floors, woodstoves, vintage iron beds, romantic bed linens, organic cotton sheets, outdoor heated clawfoot tubs, and outhouses. Mary has used her bed & breakfast to diversify her business and promote the agritourism industry.
Mary Jane Butters Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Mary’s estimated net worth is $2 million.
Who Is Mary Jane Butters
Mary is an American author, environmental activist, organic farmer, and food manufacturer. She is the publisher of MaryJanesFarm magazine. Mary lives with her family on a farm in Moscow, Idaho. Her farm and business were featured in the December 1995 issue of National Geographic magazine.