It’s my way to publicly invest in my community. I teach about wild food through guided walks, processing raw ingredients, cooking with those ingredients, and candid conversations about the impact of colonialism. I like meeting people and helping them learn how to safely and respectfully engage with land while also recognizing foraging as a form of resistance.

I’m not some saint. I’m not indigenous. I don’t have all the answers.

I am a teacher, imperfect and foggy brained.

I grew up surrounded by scientists who devoured new research and built math equations to solve rhetorical questions. If there was a question, there would be research to find the answer, and no sci-fi book or movie was safe from the logic of this group I called my family. They were also hunters, hikers, scouts, farmers, vitners, and agro-scientists.

Full disclosure: I have a bfa in dance and spent a good decade as a full time ballroom dance instructor to adults. I’m what you might call a black sheep 🙂

And now here I am, a mom with a passion for getting outside and eating good food.

I’m glad you’re here, too.