Robert Bild­ner, a for­mer attor­ney, cre­at­ed and sold sev­er­al food dis­tri­b­u­tion and man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­nies. Bild­ner and his wife Elisa estab­lished the Foun­da­tion for Jew­ish Camp, and he serves as a lay leader on sev­er­al non­prof­it boards. He stud­ied pho­tog­ra­phy, and pho­tographed this book’s farms and restau­rants. He grad­u­at­ed from Yale Uni­ver­si­ty, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Law School and Jew­ish The­o­log­i­cal Seminary.