Born in 1938, Linda Runyon was the daughter of Ruth & Paul Runyon, an antique dealer and a cabinetmaker, respectively. Her family, including her brother, Paul Jr., would take vacations in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate NY. It was there that Linda’s love of nature and the outdoors was established.
Linda grew up to be a registered nurse and have a family of her own. Later, her children Eric, Kim & Todd would develop their own relationship with these same mountains where Linda and her then-husband, Ken Heitz, would begin their homesteading experience in 1972.
Linda emerged from the woods full of the experience and ready to teach others what she had learned there. She continues to this day to author new works and teach the lost techniques that she re-discovered out of necessity in the wild.