Heidi Hubbard originally came from Germany but moved to Texas where she was an art and German teacher for many years until her retirement. She has used her retirement years volunteering around the world and was one of our Volunteers for Peace in 2013.? She was so good that we asked her to extend her stay through Punkinfiddle, which she did, and then we invited her to return this year!

Heidi spent much of this summer volunteering in Ukraine before arriving here September 12. Shes accomplished so much in the past 3 weeks, including daily watering of the newly planted American Chestnut tree in the Yankee Woodlot and tons of tasks preparing for and cleaning up from Punkinfiddle. She's been a stalwart assistant to John; her favorite jobs were "anything outdoors."

Now that the cold is setting in, she's going back to Texas. We will miss her and hope she'll be back again next year!