Artist's Reception: Ellen Sandbeck

Ellen Sandbeck is an organic landscaper, worm wrangler, writer and graphic artist who lives with (and experiments on) her husband and an assortment of younger creatures — which includes two mostly grown children, a couple of dogs, a small flock of laying hens, and many thousands of composting worms — in Duluth, Minnesota. She is the author of "Slug Bread & Beheaded Thistles," "Eat More Dirt," "Organic Housekeeping" and her latest, "Green Barbarians."