Lisa Rayner

© 2023 Lisa Rayner is the author of The Sunny Side of Cooking solar cookbook. Their other books include solar cooking chapters or sections. Visit https://lisaraynerbooks.com for information on all of Lisa Rayner's books on cooking, permaculture, and weaving techniques and patterns. Lisa’s solar cooking blog at: https://www.Instagram.com/Sunny_Solar_Cook.
What if there was a year-round method of cooking that was low cost, powered by sunlight, non-polluting, and easy to do even in college dorms, apartment balconies and off-the-grid locations? There is: solar cooking.
==Who is Lisa Rayner?==
Lisa lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico 7,000 feet elevation at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Lisa Rayner has been a solar cook since 1995. They started their solar cooking adventures with a used cardboard CooKit panel cooker from Solar Cookers International bought for 10 USD and later purchased a Global Sun Oven. In 2007, they published the 1st edition of The Sunny Side of Cooking: Solar cooking and other ecologically friendly cooking methods for the 21st century.
Lisa has a 1991 Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resource Interpretation from Northern Arizona University. They are a graduate of the 1993 Black Mesa Permaculture Project's Design Certification Course and 1994 Coconino County Master Gardener Program. In 2008, Lisa won the Martin-Springer Institute Moral Courage Award and the Friends of Flagstaff's Future Livable Community Award. Lisa was also a Garden’s for Humanity 2009 Visionary Awardee.
Lisa is a longtime weaver who designs weaving patterns for freeform overshot and wearable art yarn projects. In their Etsy shop Lisa Rayner Handwovens, they sell weaving patterns for pick up freeform overshot and wearable art yarn clothing and accessories. In 2015, their freeform overshot Mermaid Scarf appeared on the cover of the Nov/Dec issue of Handwoven Magazine. Their main weaving blog is @LisaRaynerHandwovens on Instagram.
Please buy their books on Amazon. "New" older editions of their books are not sold by Lisa Rayner.
In October 2008, Lisa won Friends of Flagstaff's Future's Livable Community Award for her efforts to provide a sustainable, high quality of life for Flagstaff residents. In 2009, Lisa was named a Garden's for Humanity 2009 Visionary Awardee. 
==Contact ==
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