Katy Farber is a teacher, freelance writer, and mama from the mountains of Vermont. She writes about the environment, parenting, and education, and can be found running the dirt (or muddy, snowy, icy) roads of her town, or playing in the yard with her two spirited little girls. She has numerous product reviews and articles at Vegetarian Baby and Child, and in FIVE magazine. Her product reviews are also listed at Amazon. Katy also regularly writes for Eco Child's Play and ocassionally posts to Mother Talkers and the MotherVerse blog. She would happily expand on any of her posts for publication and is available for assignment work.
Katy has been interviewed by Kris Underwood for the Motherverse blog, and she has testified at the Vermont legislature help pass a lead in consumer products bill.
Katy Farber and Non-Toxic Kids have been featured in The Washington Post, , the Richmond Times Dispatch, the Toronto Star, Enviroblog, Terrain Magazine, and on many green and educational blogs and websites.
Non-Toxic Kids recently was awarded a top 100 health blogs and the best children's health blog in the People's Health Blogger Awards Competition by Wellsphere. Here are what the readers who voted for Non-Toxic Kids had to say about the blog:
"Katy at the NonToxic Kids blog delivers the most interesting and informative and in most cases life-saving information to my inbox each week. Her research concentrated in this blog help me keep my 11 month-old safe and growing healthy. I would otherwise never know this information. She's helping raise a healthier America."
--ginasmith
"Katy has been amazing! Her blog is my go to place for information about keeping my kids safe and healthy in this ever changing world. Katy is constantly researching and sharing results with us about chemicals in our day to day life. Thank you Katy for opening my eyes and keeping me informed. In this busy life I need you!"
--momsathome
"Katy is amazing at sharing her well studied knowledge. I love her Blog. She is very much dedicated to helping our kids & helping our world."
--kanndels
