K. Ruby Blume is an educator, gardener, beekeeper, artist, performer and activist with more than 20 years of experience gardening in an urban setting. She has studied everything from permaculture to organ massage and has taught herself cooking, canning and fermentation techniques. She can also set tile, install a sink, do electrical wiring, tend a beehive and repair a motorcycle.

She has experience with a multitude of art media including ceramic, mosaic, glass, textile, printmaking, puppetry, collage, assemblage, costume design and photography. Ruby is known for her work as founder and artistic director of the non-profit arts group, Wise Fool Puppet Intervention, and has perfomed and exhibited her work throughout the Bay Area and beyond since the mid-80s.

The product of three generations of teachers, Ruby's experience as an educator extends back 30 years. She has taught music, art, puppetry, design, theatre, gardening, beekeeping, stiltwalking and more to people ages five to ninety-five. Ruby currently runs the Institute of Urban Homesteading, a school for urban sustainability, localism and self-reliance in Oakland, California.

You can find out more about K. Ruby at her website.