Barbara Swell has authored eight books of historic cooking. Her Log Cabin Cooking Classes offer instruction on a wide variety of traditional cooking skills, including pie making, hearth cooking, cookie cookery, jams jellies and butters, holiday breads, and Appalachian wood cookstove cooking.

As a musician, Wayne Erbsen performs in or near his home base of Asheville, North Carolina on clawhammer and bluegrass banjo, fiddle, mandolin and guitar. He frequently does programs of old-time Appalachian music as well as music of the Civil War, railroad songs and bluegrass music. As a teacher, Wayne's Log Cabin Music Classes offer instruction in bluegrass banjo, clawhammer banjo, old-time and bluegrass fiddle, mandolin, guitar.

Together, Wayne Erbsen and Barbara Swell own and operate Native Ground Books & Music which produces books and recordings of historic Appalachian cooking, Appalachian songs, Civil War ballads, cowboy music, railroad music, gospel music, bluegrass music and old-time country music. Native Ground also offers instruction books and songbooks for clawhammer banjo and bluegrass banjo, old-time fiddle, bluegrass and old-time mandolin and guitar.