This week's Q-Report tracks down Maura Rockcastle, the mastermind behind the re-development of the Highline in NYC.

Tune in as Out East Foodie blogger Laura Luciano joins Rachel Wharton on this week's episode of Meet Your Maker! Laura discusses sustainable living out in Eastern Long Island and the process of building a sustainable home while keeping up with her popular food blog. Listen in as she talks about the local foods, farms, and fisheries that have inspired articles and dishes in her blog as well as her geothermal and solar home that will be self sustaining and the perfect place for the Out East Feast. Follow the excitement as she cooks, keeps bees, gardens, and is soon to tend a chicken coop! This program was sponsored by Heritage Foods USA.

"The out east and the east end speaks to the way we want to live our life." [8:40]

"Out East Foodie and this house that we're building is synonymous." [10:29]

"The farmers are salt of the earth people and to be in the middle of that is so exciting to me." [23:14]

--Laura Luciano on Meet Your Maker

Shelterbelt Farm is owned and managed by Craig and Erica and their young children Rowan and Phoenix. Started as a homestead in 2005, 2010 was their first year of operation as an official farm. The farm is located in the scenic rolling hills of Caroline, NY, in the Finger Lakes region just southeast of Ithaca. It is home to three generations of Modishers, and pigs, chickens, turkeys, bees, and geese. Next year Craig and Erica will add 100% grass-fed cattle and goats, and eventually produce greens through the winter in unheated hoophouses.

Craig and Erica are passionate about regenerating the health of the land and their customers, by managing animals in a way that builds soil and plant diversity, provides a low-stress, happy life for the livestock, and produces nourishing pasture-raised meats. All-natural production practices, superior taste and quality, and good environmental stewardship go hand-in-hand.

Craig also runs Ironwood Builders with his business partners, and Erica works at the Cornell Small Farms Program as the co-manager of the Northeast Beginning Farmer Project. This program has been sponsored by Hearst Ranch.

"When you're homesteading you don't have to worry about enterprise budgets, profits, efficiency or scale. These are some of the issues we've been dealing with since we began commercial farming." [6:32] -- Erica Frenay on Greenhorn Radio