User:Emmicue

Hello! My background is in history, anthropology and education. My interests include early human settlements in the Americas, colonial and early national US history, and the development and spread of food plants.

I'm a classically-trained musician, playing an electric version of my instrument in an "Americana"-style band -- "by ear," no music. I speak and read some Spanish, read academic and formal French moderately well,and perspire through academic and formal German. I'm an organic gardener who likes to try new plant varieties, a bread and pie maker, and an amateur watercolorist when I can find the time.

Other interests include: ending mountaintop-removal mining and shale-gas "fracking," protecting heirloom plants and animals, implementing solar energy rooftop by rooftop, strictly regulating GMOs [particularly "Roundup-Ready" varieties], developing crafts communities to perpetuate knowledge and skills; farmers' markets, recycling, wind energy, coffees, teas, and genealogy.