Elizabeth Spellman, JD is a Virginia native who is building a sustainable farm and homestead, Singing Spring Farm, with her husband in the Sinking Creek Valley. She is a nonprofit consultant and works with organizations and cooperatives in Appalachia, the Chesapeake region, and New England, with a focus on sliding scale models and food systems. Elizabeth completed an alignment-based yoga teacher training at New River Yoga in West Virginia, and taught there before moving to southwest Virginia.  She has a Mental Health First Aid certification and attends Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine part-time. Elizabeth is committed to affordable and holistic medicine in central Appalachia, as well as making opportunities for personal cultivation and mental and spiritual well-being more accessible in rural places.