Natalie Herbick Cancer

Overview

Natalie L. Herbick is an American who lives at the Rancho Santa Ana in Blanton, Texas, with her husband Pete Herbick and their two children, Marie and Kim Herbick. She received her BFA and MFA degrees from Western New Mexico University.

Herbick’s first publication is the two-volume biography of her teacher, landscape gardener and food taster, Charles Lemmons, titled, Chitlin, Lemmons. She is currently working on a book about the culture, history and art of Northern New Mexico. She is featured in the 2009 documentary film, The Art of My Life, which documents her life and the times in which she lived.

Herbick attended Saint Mary of Agawam School for High School students. She earned a Bachelors in English Literature at Saint Mary of the Plains in Clinton, Maine. There she met food writer Pete Herbick and two years later married him. Natalie originally lived her life primarily through food, which led to several collaborations with celebrity chefs.

Her Herbick got her first taste of politics as a student at the University of Oklahoma, serving as a paper and printer. Two years later she moved to Chicago, Illinois.

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Background and Career

Natalie Herbick moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico to attend the University of New Mexico. She earned a double major in English Literature and Management after her work on campus, which was noted by the University of New Mexico English Department to be amongst the best colleges in the Midwest region. Her work in this field, as well as her subsequent graduate degree, was noted by the New Mexico State University English Department as the best in the USA. Herbick wrote A Taste of the Buffalo for the New Mexico High Plains, describing her experiences as first crossing the state from plains to mountains.

She moved back to Albuquerque on the East Coast to live with Pete, while her husband worked in San Francisco. When they were not in New Mexico she lived in Florida, Virginia or Oregon. Shortly after the couple moved back to the United States, they had 2 children, Kim Herbick and Marie Herbick. Natalie continued to care for pets in the San Francisco Bay area.

Her Herbick and Pete Herbick met while on campus at the University of New Mexico, in August of 1989.