MY FAVORITE RECIPES - Meet Aleta Heiner, Diamond

photo by Betina Workman.Back left to right: Rachel, Andrew, Aleta, Bruce, Leah. Front: Kimberly, James, Tyler and Tia Birch.

Aleta Heiner considers herself a dinosaur for being a stay at home mom who has raised six children. She also raises a garden, cans produce and make quilts.

“That’s always been me,” she said.

Aleta and her husband Bruce were raised in Southern Idaho; she in Mackey and he in Heyburn, near Burley. They met at the University of Idaho where Aleta pursued a degree in psychology until she met Bruce. He earned his undergraduate degree from the U of I and then went to Washington...