page_title: MaryJane Butters
section_title: The U-Pick Country Club
hierarchical_section_title: MaryJane Butters / The U-Pick Country Club
caption_attribution_description: English: MaryJane Butters at her farm in Moscow, ID.
context_page_description: MaryJane Butters is the American organic farmer, book author, environmental activist, and food manufacturer behind the self-titled MaryJanesFarm magazine. Working from her family farm in Moscow, Idaho, and through her websites, Butters has achieved success through a variety of business ventures relating to the domestic arts, organic farming, and a grassroots self-sufficiency movement directed at creating a rural revival.
  Butters is now a fast-growing lifestyle brand with media mentions in outlets such as the Food Network, PBS, NPR, House & Garden, Country Living, The New Yorker, Country Home, The Chicago Tribune, Vogue, and other national publications. Her farm and business were famously immortalized in a large spread in the December 1995 issue of National Geographic.
context_section_description: Butters also ran a u-pick membership organization. For a $100 fee and the cost of produce, a household was given permission to collect produce and eggs from the greenhouses, fields, orchard, and chicken coop during daylight hours, seven days a week.  Members could also gather flowers, picnic on the farm, or visit animals. Butters’ goal in starting the country club, according to son-in-law Lucas Rae, was to give others a chance to live out their “farm fantasy” and educate families about the source of their food.  Butters has also said that she wanted to combat the culture of convenience food, which has “created a nutritional famine”.
caption: MaryJane at her farm in Moscow, ID.
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