A forever student learning from direct source and direct experience as much as possible. 

Formal trainings in biological sciences, middle level and secondary education, resource economics, nursing, indigenous folk herbalism. 

Decades of working in behavioral health, family health, mental health; Regenerative agriculture; STEM and environmental education; Logistics, Curriculum and Education, 

Member of the American Herbalist Guild. 

My work has been focused since 2015 into Meraki Farmacy, a regenerative, organic herb farm that formulates folk remedies in house for family and community health. This is informed greatly by personal practices with the healing arts including indigenous herbalism and evolutionary astrology, trauma informed integrative health care, and an innate, lifelong desire to protect and connect. 

I am passionate about bridging - People and Plants, Possibilities and Paradigms, Traditional healing arts and the urgent existential needs and crises of our times. People come to me with many types of questions and concerns, interests and curiosities. Ultimately they are all seeking direct, intimate experiences - with their own agency and autonomy, with the Land and Plant and More-than-human Kin, with indigenous practices and wisdoms lost under colonization and conformity in western society, with something cohesive and full of integrity, with a sense of security and belonging. 

I am very interested in the ideological and philosophical paradigms that serve to empower and return folks to interdependence, in expanding consciousness and imagining what else is possible for the qualities of life for all living beings. In the interest of accessing our imaginations and creative powers, lived experiences of safety are highly indicated, corroborated by the amount of violence and systemic harm of our society and western culture. Through relationships with more-than-human kin, relational healing is accessible, ancestral, connective, and imperative.