伊丽莎白亨德森在纽约州的韦恩县的和平工作农场（Peacework Farm）耕作，并且已经种植有机蔬菜超过30年。她是东北部有机农业联合会（Northeast Organic Farming Association）的创始人之一，并且从1989年开始就是联合会纽约分会的理事会成员， 代表NOFA参与讨论全国的有机农业标准，也是农业公正项目（ Agricultural Justice Project）的管理委员会成员和韦恩县农业、农田保护理事会的主席，她还协助组织了国内的公平贸易联盟。2001年，有机产业给予了她“有机灵魂”奖，2007年，富足合作社授予她“社区合作”奖，2009年NOFA纽约授予她终身成就奖。她的主要著作有：《自然农民》、《食物、农场和伙伴》、《真实的土壤：农民讲述有机和低投入农业的实践》、《分享收获：社区支持农业公民手册》、《农场整体管理手册》、《可持续收获食物书》。

Elizabeth Henderson has been farming at Peacework Farm in Wayne County, New York, and has been producing organically grown vegetables for the fresh market for over 30 years. She is a founding member of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) in Massachusetts, has been on the Board of Directors of NOFA-NY since 1989, and represents NOFA in the national discussions of organic standards and on the Management Committee of the Agricultural Justice Project. She chairs the Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board in Wayne County, and helped organize the Domestic Fair Trade Association. In 2001, the organic industry honored her with one of the first “Spirit of Organic awards, in 2007, Abundance Co-op honored her with the “Cooperating for Communities” award and in 2009 NOFA-NY honored her with a Lifetime Achievement Award.  Her writings on organic agriculture appear in The Natural Farmer and the NOFA-NY Food, Farms and Folks, and she is one of the authors of The Real Dirt: Farmers Tell about Organic and Low-Input Practices in the Northeast, lead author of Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported Agriculture (Chelsea Green, 1999, with a new edition in 2007) and wrote A Manual of Whole Farm Planning (2003) with Karl North. With her former farm partner, she wrote A Food Book for a Sustainable Harvest for the members of the Genesee Valley Organic Community Supported Agriculture Project (GVOCSA). Peacework Organic Farm supplies vegetables to the 300-member GVOCSA, in its twenty third year in 2011.