From Deseret News archives:
Mary Jane Butters
1953 — Born in Ogden.
1974 — Completes carpentry school.
1976 — Becomes first female wilderness ranger in Uinta Wilderness Area in Utah.
1986 — Buys five-acre farm near Moscow, Idaho. Founds Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute.
1988 — Starts selling organic peppers, garlic and lettuce at farmer's market.
1989 — Creates dried falafel mix.
1993 — Issues private stock to grow her Paradise Farm Organics dried food product line.
1996 — Publishes first mail order catalog.
1997 — Creates Pay Dirt Farm School, in which students pay to live and work on farm.
1998 — Raises almost $1 million in another stock sale.
1999 — Introduces Web sites www.backcountryfood.org and www.maryjanesfarm.org. Farm sales reach nearly $500,000.
2001 — Creates MaryJanesFarm magazine.
