I grew up in the wild places of Oklahoma, Montana, and southwestern Colorado—landscapes that shaped everyone who steps foot on them. My parents taught me how to listen to the land. How to watch the way the wind moves before a snow storm. How to walk through the woods with awareness, and how to be part of an ecosystem that fed and held us.
We hunted and trapped throughout the winter months, not for sport, but for survival. That way of living taught me reverence, the kind that comes from knowing your life is sustained by the loss of another's'. The kind that teaches you to say thank you with your whole body.

Later, I studied permaculture, food forests, and herbalism—learning from programs like the Hawthorn & Honey School of Intuitive Herbalism, Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine, Rowan and Sage, and diving into the deeper mysteries with the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids.
But that early foundation—the felt relationship with the land—has always been the center of my work.
Because I believe that herbalism at it's heart is about building a bridge back to the earth; back to the way of living in kinship with the wild.

I love the scent of creosote in the desert rain and the colors that stretch across the sky as the sun sets over the Colorado Plateau. I'm enchanted by the flight of a blue heron over Eagle Harbor and the way yarrow waves in the breeze along the edge of Puget Sound.

These places—and the memories they carry—inspire every offering I craft.

At Folk & Fire Apothecary, I create earth-based body care and teach seasonal medicine rooted in place, story, and reciprocity. I live on Bainbridge Island with my wild-hearted family and a small circle of people committed to real, land-based healing.