If you’d like to interview Michelle or book her for a speaking engagement, please send an email to Michelle.visser (at) outlook (dot) com.

Published Work:

• Author of the best-selling how-to book and cookbook, Sweet Maple
• Creator of Kombucha Academy
• Creator of Maple Syrup University
• Columnist, Where Women Create Work magazine, 2019
• Featured in Hobby Farms Magazine, From Sap to Syrup, January 2020
• Featured in The Prairie Homestead Cookbook by Jill Winger
• Featured in Fox News, Maple Butter Offers a Sweet Taste…

 

Honors & Awards:

• 2019 NEIBA featured author (see page 5)
• 2019, Side Hustle Star, SoulyRested.com was chosen as award-winning website. (Then they wrote up this sweet article about me and my site.)
• 2019, Top 20 Homesteading Blogs
• 2018, Top 20 Must-Read Blogs

Speaking Engagements:

• 2021 workshop presenter at the Homesteaders of America conference
• 2020, professional baking demonstration, Xhibition Kitchen, Northeastern (watch, via fb live, right here.)
• 2020, professional presenter at the annual Endurance Group international meeting
• 2019, Lehman’s workshop on Baking With Maple
• 2019, Lehman’s workshop on Simple DIY Kombucha

Summits & Video Courses:

• 2019, presenter for the Heritage Cooking Crash Course, with The Prairie Homestead
• 2019, Homesteaders of America resource library workshop Simple DIY Kombucha
• 2018, Melissa K Norris’ Modern Homesteading Summit, workshop on how to use maple syrup in baking
• 2018, Back to Basics Summit, presentation on organic composting
• 2017, Back to Basics Summit, presentation on making maple syrup

Other Features:

• Fox News, Maple butter offers a sweet and secret taste of springtime, March 2024
• Whole Foods Magazine, The Sweet Side of Life, Oct 2019
• Mother Earth News, Maple Syrup: Relish the Real, Sept 2019
• Mother Earth News, What Do You Need To Know When You’re Buying Syrup?, Sept 2019
• Capper’s Farmer, Maple Cream, Sept 2019
• Capper’s Farmer, Maple Butter Dog Bones, Sept 2019
• Lehman’s Country Life, Sugarmaking Makes Thirst Take a Hike, March 2019
• Lehman’s Country Life, Sugarmaking Makes a lot More Than Syrup, February 2019

Interviews:

• Simple Farmhouse Life, episode 199, August 2023
• Jill Winger’s Old Fashioned On Purpose podcast, Apr 2022
• Jill Winger’s Old Fashioned On Purpose podcast, 2021
• Jill Winger’s Old Fashioned On Purpose podcast, Oct 2019
• Pioneering Today podcast, October 2019
• Solutions for a Simpler Life, Oct 2019
• Backyard Bounty podcast, July 2019
• Pioneering Today podcast, January 2018