Cathe Olson is a wife and mother, as well as a writer and natural foods cook. She is the author of Simply Natural Baby Food and The Vegetarian Mother’s Cookbook. Cathe has had articles published in national magazines such as Mothering, Natural Family Online, and Natural Awakenings. She is the Book Review Editor for VegFamily Magazine and writes for local publications as well.

Cathe is passionate about helping parents make healthy food choices for themselves and their families. She is a frequent speaker at parenting classes, moms’ clubs, natural foods stores, libraries, and wellness centers.

She is also active in her support of libraries and writers. Cathe is the director of the Central Coast Writers’ Conference and has served on the boards of the Central Coast Book and Author Festival, Friends of the Nipomo Library, and SLO Nightwriters. To improve her own writing, she participates in writing critique groups and is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

Cathe, her husband Gary, and their two daughters, Aimie and Emily, share a vision of living a simple, natural life. They are currently building a solar-powered house on the central coast of California where they plan to live off the land as much as possible. Cathe is currently working on a nutrition book for children as well as several children’s fiction books.

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