About our Founders and Contributors
Learn about our Cherry Blossom Ridge family, what drives each of us, and where we come from.
Valerie Kral
Founder
I am a self-proclaimed "Jill-of-all-trades" with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business. After almost a decade in Automotive Engineering, I quit my burnout-causing job to stay home with my 3 wonderful children and work on my passions; learning how to nourish my family through a variety of allergies/ailments, helping my children to grow up with a love of learning, and finding or creating joy in the little things in my home.
I started Cherry Blossom Ridge to share my journey, and to bring a little bit of technical and indepth information to any subject my family and I think that you would enjoy.
Get to know us.
Cherry Blossom Ridge is a place to come find the best ideas, tutorials, recipes, and products to help you learn something new. We want to help you fall in love with the process of trying, failing, correcting, trying again and making progress. In a world so focused on “the goal” we are here to remind you that it is the process that you really need to be focused on; and focused on enjoying. Along the way we also want to help you dive a little bit deeper than you thought you would, and deepen your connection with your friends and family through what you learn and do with us.