Helping women clean up their homes, nourish themselves with real food,
grow what they can, and take back their health—without overwhelm.
30+ Years of Clean-Living Truth-Telling
Amy (Todisco) Hartshorn — empowering women to detox their homes,
food & lives with confidence.
Mentor • Podcast Host • Speaker • Author • Retreat Leader
Amy (Todisco) Hartshorn
I've Been Exposing Toxic Secrets Since Before Anyone Was Talking About It
Thirty-plus years ago, a pregnant woman from the Upper East Side picked up a little paperback called The Nontoxic Baby — and what she found inside made her furious.
The baby products. The shampoos. The cleaning products. All of it laced with chemicals that regulators weren't regulating, companies weren't disclosing, and families had absolutely no idea about.
That woman was me. And fury, it turns out, is a hell of a fuel source.
From One Outraged Mom to a 30+-Year Movement
I didn't wait for someone else to fix it.
By 1995, I was writing bold letters to the editor of the local newspaper, challenging the "better living through chemicals" crowd at a time when that kind of talk got you attacked by the “better living through chemicals” crowd.
I organized a town-wide Earth Day event, sparked new environmental groups, and co-founded the Marblehead Cancer Prevention Project — because our town had three types of cancer occurring at above-state-average rates, and someone had to ask why.
This wasn't trendy. It certainly wasn't mainstream. Clean living in the early '90s meant you were either ahead of your time — or considered a little out there.
Maybe I was both.
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The Work Got Bigger. So Did the Platform.
My grassroots fire caught the attention of people who had the tools to turn it into something more.
The founder of Seventh Generation brought me in as the founding Executive Director of the Household Toxins Institute — one of the first organizations dedicated to actually testing household products for toxins. I went on to serve as technical editor for Green Living for Dummies, making sure real families got real science, not industry spin dressed up in green packaging.
My work has been featured on HGTV, Vermont Public Radio & Television, WCAX, and Rachel Ray Everyday Magazine. I've spoken at summits, appeared on podcasts, been interviewed on TV and radio, and written across print outlets for decades.
Oh — and Oprah's team called. She was going to come to Vermont to interview me about the way I live.
(I'm actually pretty proud of that one.)
That same pattern — see the problem, build the solution, bring others along — has shaped everything I've done beyond those early years. I've founded and led community organizations, built regional coalitions connecting holistic health practitioners, and coached entrepreneurs for more than two decades. It has never been enough for me to work only at the individual level when something larger was possible.
The Life Behind the Work
I traded Manhattan for a certified organic farm in Vermont's Mad River Valley — and I've never once looked back.
I learned to cook from scratch at eight years old, thanks to a chef stepfather, a nutrition-obsessed mother, and a great-aunt who grew nearly everything she ate. I was stocking shelves at a health food store at sixteen. Food, soil, and honest living have always been my native language.
Today, my husband Dave and I run Hartshorn Organic Farm, where the greenhouse, fields, and sugarhouse aren't just where we grow food — they're living classrooms. Real places where clean food, organic gardening, and conscious living stop being concepts and start being lunch & dinner.
What I know about nontoxic living isn't ideological. It's ancestral — and it's been tested on real land, in a real kitchen, for over thirty years.
The Work That Changes Everything
Most educators in this space stay in one lane. I work across all of them — household toxins, clean food, holistic and root-cause health, and organic gardening — because your body, your home, and your plate are not separate problems.
And for over eleven years, I've been leading women's restorative retreats that bring all of it together. These are not spa weekends. At one early retreat, a veteran who had struggled with alcohol since her deployment got sober during the weekend. She told me afterward it was a better experience than two months of inpatient treatment at a VA hospital. A former military medic left feeling like herself again — so much so that her husband told her he was starting to see the woman he fell in love with. A third participant said simply: "I don't want to be dramatic, but it was life-changing."
That is what this work does at its core. It doesn't just inform women, it returns them to themselves.
What I Actually Do (And Who It's For)
I work with independent-thinking, health-conscious women who are done being confused, misled, and overwhelmed.
Women who are tired of squinting at ingredient labels and still not knowing what they're looking at. Women who want a home that isn't quietly working against their family's health. Women who are ready to trust themselves again.
What We Tackle Together
Think of this as a whole-life detox — not a panic spiral. We go room by room, habit by habit, until your home, food, and health are genuinely working for you instead of quietly against you.
Your home. I help you identify and eliminate the hidden toxins in your cleaning products, cookware, indoor air, and everyday items — room by room, without the overwhelm.
Your food. I teach you to shop smarter, read labels faster, spot greenwashing from a mile away, and eat clean without turning mealtimes into a research project.
Your health. I help you move beyond the sick-care model with holistic, root-cause tools that support your energy, hormones, immunity, and mental clarity — blending ancient wisdom with modern science.
Your garden. Whether you have a backyard or a sunny windowsill, I'll show you how to grow your own nutrient-dense, chemical-free food. Yes, you can do this.
Your confidence. This is the real one. I help you go from confused and anxious to clear, grounded, and in control — in weeks, not years.
Start Here: Your Nontoxic Kitchen Reimagined
The kitchen is ground zero.
It's where your family eats, gathers, and — without realizing it — absorbs more toxins than almost anywhere else in the home. It's also the single most powerful place to start reclaiming your health.
Your Nontoxic Kitchen Reimagined is my 5-day reset built to do exactly that. Each day, you'll receive a short video, clear action steps, and my personal recommendations — the same ones I've refined over 30+ years of research, advocacy, and real life on an organic farm.
No overwhelm. No rabbit holes. Just five focused days that permanently change how you see, and use, the most important room in your house.
If you've been waiting for a sign to finally start — this is it.
My Promise to You
I don't do fear-based detox. I don't do perfectionism. I don't do trends.
What I do is truth — grounded in thirty-plus years of science, sustainability, and common sense, delivered by someone who's been in the trenches long enough to know what actually matters.
You don't need to do everything, just the right things — in the right order, with the right foundation under you.
That's what separates my work from the endless parade of swap lists and toxin checklists you'll find everywhere else online. Anyone can tell you to throw out your Teflon pan. What I give you is something far more valuable: a framework for thinking — so you know why you're making each change, where to start, and how to build a genuinely nontoxic life that sticks.
That's the difference between information and transformation.
I'll show you exactly how to get there.
Join Your Nontoxic Kitchen Reimagined
I help women go from overwhelmed and confused to clear, confident, and in control — in weeks, not years. Because here's the truth: women are the gatekeepers of the home — and when women wake up, families transform.
My online courses, the Green Living Now podcast, my writing, my speaking — including my upcoming TEDx talk, all share one aim: to make detoxing your life simple, joyful, and deeply empowering.
Currently in development: Green Living on the Menu, a docuseries bringing the farm-to-table story to life.
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I help women go from overwhelmed and confused to clear, confident, and in control—in weeks, not years.
Because here’s the truth:
Women are the gatekeepers of the home—and when women wake up, families transform.
My online courses (Clean Eating Mastery, Creating a Non-Toxic, Eco-Friendly Home: Room by Room, Organic Gardening Made Simple, Green Living Essentials, and How to Easily Grow Organic Food Almost Anywhere), the Green Living Now Podcast, my writing, my speaking, including my upcoming TEDx talk, and upcoming docuseries Green Living on the Menu, all share one aim:
To make detoxing your life simple, joyful, and deeply empowering.
Ready to See What the Industry Hopes You Never Notice?
Join Notes from the Green Rebellion — my free weekly guide to outsmarting toxic systems, cutting through greenwashing, and building a safer, healthier home with confidence.
