Since before I can remember, I would sit and read Peterson’s Field Guide to Wildflowers and then wander to see which flowers would flag me down. I would visit the different microclimates on our 40-acre land to see my special rare and ephemeral friends: bloodroot blooming out of the frigid mud on the north side of the mountain at the very beginning of spring, or pink lady’s slipper in amongst the sweet pine straw around Mother’s Day.

I would eat wild strawberries off the sandy, scrubby banks and pop the tense green seed pods of jewelweed, joyfully startling a little with each explosion. I ate chickweed, wild onions, rosehips, blackberries, violets, sourgrass, and picked rabbit tobacco, black-eyed susans, wild rose, apple blossoms to decorate with.

 Throughout my life herbalism and divination have always been present. I know the weather around here, the clouds, the smells. My mom always had a small apothecary, and I learned recently that I was a Blue Cohosh baby, brought down and pushed out after a long labor, as per the advice of the midwife. The tastes of Echinacea, Osha, Goldenseal, and Throat Coat tea bring me back to childhood.

I know the animals and the birds and often the unseeable presences that exist alongside us; observation is a skill that I have been honing since I had perception. I was given a tarot deck in my teens or tweens which I lost somewhere along the way, and I was obsessed with symbology, poetry, and the little treasures and sightings that made it clear that something significant is being communicated through nature and the subtle, ethereal things that move with us every second. 

Now I am a practicing herbalist, graduate of Sacred Plant Traditions, long-term mentee of Suzanna Stone and Owlcraft Healing Ways, and community herbalism at The Elderberry. I work with clients and plants to facilitate healing connections and constitutional alignment while honoring my clients in their wholeness. I teach community classes from medicine making to tarot, facilitate ceremony, and read cards for folks who need a little extra guidance.

Across all of my offerings I seek to offer a unique experience that allows you to shine and to safely access your depths and where from I can give the clearest, least encumbered guidance specific to your unique story, while holding strong, gentle space.

 I am of the land that raised me, and I spend a lot of time in deep reflection and gratitude, pondering what it means to be so connected to this place and its histories. I am dedicated to maintaining an underpinning of social justice throughout all facets of my work and do my best to follow an ethical structure of reciprocity, honoring, and gratitude.

I practice Western Energetic Herbalism which is greatly informed by Indigenous and Black herbalism as well as Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine. I do not practice traditional forms of herbalism outside of my culture without express permission from those who teach them to me. I create all of my own offerings and writings unless noted. Thank you for your interest and inquiry. I wish you very well.