What did your grandmother’s hands know?
Thousands and thousands of hands before ours
rough from helping, rough from love.
Folk Magik is rooted in place, and so am I.
I live among the roses, the willow, the mud pies my hands in theirs, making, weaving, tending place.
Come find me in the garden. The medicine is already growing there.
I am kin to the salmon, the elk, the raven, the otter, the wide grey sea. My hands are rough from helping our more-than-human family, just as theirs once helped mine.
Where will you be, love? In these times of disconnection from our mother, the earth?
I sit with the grandmothers in council.
You are so very welcome here.
What magik will we make, you and I,
in this space between our sacred hands?
Begin Your Ancestral Journey
Rooted Branch is a hedge school for bringing ancestral healing, land connection, and seasonal remembering—where ritual, craft, and story guide us back to belonging.
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Rooted Branch acknowledges and honors the traditional and contemporary lands of the S’Klallam (Nəxʷsƛ̕áy̕əm̕) and the Chemakum (Aqokúlo or Čə́məq̓əm) tribes, whose countless generations of people, with their rich cultural heritage and deep connection to the land, continue to shape the place now known as the Upper Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.
We are grateful for their stewardship of the land, plants, and animals, and we offer our respect as we gather in this shared space, acknowledging their ongoing presence and contributions to the community. May we walk in harmony with the traditions of those who came before us. We extend our grattitude and love to all elders, past, current and becoming for their wisdom and knowledge sharing of this magical place that we share with one another.
Upcoming Weekend RetreatNovember 1, 2026
This work began in circle. Gathering in person across the seasons on the Olympic Peninsula, learning to listen for the voices that came before us.
In 2025, 12 families tended hearth and threshold,
made medicine, told stories, and followed what was ready to be restored.
That cycle is now complete.
And something new is forming.
In Fall 2026, this work will open as a weekend gathering and online resource library with ancestral connection practices, food, crafts, and herbal preparations.
A return to the grandmothers and grandfathers through ancestral knowledge, ritual, and lived practice, now even more accessible to our daily rhythms of life.
Details and enrollment will open in October 2026.
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My Ancestral Journey
My path has been a convergence of environmental science, Indigenous studies, ethnobotany, plant stewardship, earth-based spiritual apprenticeship, ancestral inquiry, and a life increasingly lived by heart and hand.
Through tending land, cultivating plants, keeping animals, working fleece, making medicine, weaving, gathering food, sharing stories, and sitting in community.
I seek to embody inheritance rather than simply remember it, to make my life a blessing to those who came before and those who will come after.
Root & Return
1:1 Ancestral Healing Sessions
Root & Restore is a three-session, one-to-one journey for times when you need space to be deeply tended. Together, we’ll slow down, listen for what is asking for attention, and work with practices drawn from plant relationship, ancestral tradition, ritual, sound, and the living land. Each session is shaped around you—offering a place to reconnect with your own knowing, restore what has been depleted, and find your footing in what comes next.
Join me on my beloved apple orchard on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State for three deep sessions of ancestral remembering and reconnection.
Upcoming Community Events
Fleece Included
1:1 Coaching Sessions
Illustrated Guide
Herb Folk is a monthly gathering to learn the plants growing right around us and welcome their gifts into everyday life. We share stories, explore traditional uses, and make simple herbal preparations by hand. Building knowledge rhythmically, the old way: through relationship, practice, and community.
We meet in Coyle, Washington, on the third Saturday of each month, 6:00–7:30 p.m. A suggested contribution of $20 helps cover herbs and supplies. Space is limited, and the gathering address is shared after registration.
Learn the old rhythms of turning fleece into fiber by hand. Each purchase includes a fleece from my fourth-generation ancestral Border Cheviot flock, a beautifully illustrated step-by-step guide to washing, carding, spinning, and working with wool, and two private coaching sessions to explore your questions and vision for the finished fiber. Together, we’ll follow the thread from animal and land to something made slowly, beautifully, and with purpose.
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