Tamara Dean, author of SHELTER AND STORM: At Home in the Driftless

In 2004, Tamara Dean stepped away from the sterile hum of office life and moved to a farm in Wisconsin’s Driftless Area—a land marked by steep hills and deeply carved valleys, laced with spring-fed streams. She was searching for a different way of being: to live lightly on the planet, to find grounding in the rituals of self-sufficiency, and to imagine a future that would be resilient in the face of climate upheaval. In her book SHELTER AND STORM: At Home in the Driftless, Tamara shares twelve finely honed essays that weave together nature, history, and science as she unravels the SHELTER AND STORM invites readers to step into the Driftless Area's untamed beauty and meditate on how we tend the earth in times of uncertainty, what we owe our neighbors, and ways we thrive in community. How do moments of ecological stewardship reveal the deeper threads of human connection? And how do we honor both the land that has shaped us for millennia and the lives of those who will inherit it from us? For more information visit https://tamaradean.media/