Onion Skins and Peach Fuzz: Memories of Ontario Farmerettes

Shirleyan English grew up in Northern Ontario where her father worked for the Ontario Northland Railway. She attended high school in North Bay and while there, volunteered for the government-run Farmerette program when she was 16 years old, spending a memorable summer working on a farm in Lambton County. That experience gave her a love of plants and working in the soil, which led to her becoming an accomplished gardener. She attended Western University graduating in 1962 with a degree in Honours Journalism and had a career of more than 30 years, working for the London Free Press, plus public relations work for school boards in London and Peterborough and freelance work. Onion Skins and Peach Fuzz is her first book.

Bonnie Sitter resides in Exeter, moving there in 1986 from Deep River Ontario where she operated her own travel agency. She retired in 2008 after more than 40 years in the travel industry and discovered a new hobby in photography which led to book publishing. Bonnie is a lover of nature and is known to be a tree hugger. She has co-authored 2 books with Telfer Wegg of Neustadt; a coffee table book titled The Beauty and Bounty of Huron County in 2013 and Agriculture Today, A Portrait of Family Farms in Ontario in 2017. Onion Skins and Peach Fuzz Memories of Ontario Farmerettes, co-authored with Shirleyan, has proven to be a great success.