Betty Levine was born in a small rural community in North Carolina in 1930. With a vegetable garden, strawberry patch, apple trees, peach trees, a plum tree, grapevines, a huge fig bush, chickens and a milk cow, there was always food even in those years of the depression. Making use of everything by canning and storing for the winter months was learned even as a child.

After a 30 year career as an art director in the publishing field in New York City, she retired to upstate New York. A “second career” was started in 1996 as manager of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) group in Woodstock, New York. The idea for An Endless Harvest was inspired by the many questions from the members about how to use and store the healthy produce they received each week.

Author and her granddaughter, Piper