Ellen Petry Whalen is a freelance writer. She grew up spending her summers in Orleans and has been calling it home for seven years, with her husband and their two organically, home-schooled daughters. Before children, she worked in sales and marketing in the medical nutrition industry and in the wine industry. A supporter of traditional foods, she is a Weston A. Price Chapter Leader. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Wellesley College.