During the summer of 2002, The Pacific Northwest Inlander visited MaryJanesFarm to interview MaryJane. The resulting article appeared in the September 16 issue of the weekly publication.

When we first spoke with her last winter, the premiere issue of her magazine had just come out … In a letter pitching the story idea to The New York Times in mid-August, House & Garden Editor at large Deborah Needleman said:

“She is … unstoppable, talented, etc. … her instincts and motivations are honest and sort of communitarian and ecological, and she makes others feel good and capable … I think she is someone with the potential to be huge.”

In the following weeks, the Inlander became the first paper to publish MaryJane's newspaper column, Simply MJ. Every week, MaryJane wrote an article filled with her simple solutions and advice for everyday organic living, complete with photographs.

In the fall of 2004, that column, a diary on Slate.com, and news that MaryJane was writing a book, brought her to the attention of Body & Soul Magazine editor Seth Bauer (a publication recently acquired by the publishers of Martha Stewart Living). MaryJane agreed to sign on as a contributing editor and write a regular column brimming with farm fresh anecdotes, how-to's, and photographs. Since MaryJane had always made the original Simply MJ column available to rural newspapers, she negotiated into the contract that the column would still be available at no cost to those papers.

The following titles are now available for publication:

Be A Farmgirl

Healing Handiwork

Flour Power

Popcorn Culture

Hand-me-downs