In a musical arena awash with roots, folk, and revivalist acts, Heather Flores stands out as a voice and a talent who truly came of age in corners of the world most performers only imagine. Her life as an activist, visual artist, fiction writer has taken her all over the country and the planet, a path allowed her to grow worldly while still deeply engaging with individual communities built around art and sustainability. Best-known to date for her community-based approach to permaculture, Food Not Lawns, Flores has parleyed her diverse and far-flung experiences into a career that feeds people, minds, and a swiftly-growing catalogue of subtly moving songs about a life most unusually led. Flores combines her shy, sultry voice with strong melodies, flamenco guitar and gypsy rhythms to give her original songs the feeling of fairytales, spilling with lush musicianship, snappy wit and a whimsical, coquettish attitude toward love, life, and adventure.

Heather wrote all of the songs and worked with Portland musician Kris White at the Map Room studio to co-produce these albums in 2011. Heather played guitar and sang, while several talented local musicians (Eric Stern and Ashia Grzesik from Vagabond Opera on piano, accordion, and cello, Rachael Cardiello of Tequila Mockingbird on viola, ukelele and glochenspiel, Andrew Alikhanov of Chervona on clarinet, and Adam Schneider of Melao de Cuba on Trombone) contributed their skills to create two very different but highly complementary works of original music.