Our writers and editors
The people behind every byline, and what each one covers.
Writer
Ruth Calloway
Pantry, water and homestead skills
Ruth Calloway writes Larder & Well's guides to food storage, water, off-grid power and the old household skills. She works from extension-service bulletins, USDA and Ready.gov guidance, manufacturer manuals and years of homesteader discussion threads, and she says plainly where the sources disagree. She does not claim to have tested what she describes; when a method is untested or risky, her articles say so.
House byline
The editors
House byline
The house byline for pages the whole desk maintains: section guides, trust pages and corrections. It checks articles against the sources they cite and fixes what is wrong.
How bylines work here
A guide carries the name of the person who wrote it. Pages the whole desk maintains, such as the section guides and our trust pages, carry the house byline. Every writer works from sources a reader can check, and no byline claims experience or credentials it does not have. Our editorial policy sets out the standard, including the food-safety guidance we follow, and the topics page shows everything the writers cover.