Private Chef
Postpartum Practitioner
Health Arts & Author
Curating Seasonal Dining Experiences
& Deeply Nourishing Postpartum Care
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My relationship to nourishment is infused with a romance for flavor, story, beauty, & the Earth.
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The heart of my work began over a decade ago when health flare ups brought me down a shape-shifting path of learning how to radically care for myself. Guided by many great mentors and a reverential relationship with the Earth, I forged a way of life rooted in seasonal, local, & creative living. I've known what deep exhaustion feels like and I also know the slow, delicious ways to court vitality back through eating real food, recovering ancestral skills like foraging & butchery, & choosing a life filled with purpose.​
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I've been fortunate to travel the world studying the culinary arts & integrative medicine, recognizing them as inextricably intertwined. The "art of nourishment" as I call it has been my focus since opening Kearsley's Kitchen back in 2020 & I couldn't do it without the dirt caked work boots of the many farmers in this area who I feature on my menus. Sharing the knowledge and beauty I've been given thru flavorful meals & immersive classes provides me a whole lot of meaning. At this pivotal moment in time I feel that what we eat, how we live, and the value we place on relationship matters - for our bodies, for the Earth, and for the larger story we are writing together.
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I hope that my work can invite others to live slower, cultivate meaningful relationships, & center what brings them pleasure.
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(like real butter & candle-lit dinners)
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My work is rooted in years of apprenticeship & experience training in:
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HTMA Mineral-Nutritional Balancing // Susan Cachay 2025-Current
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Bioregional Foods + Cook // Leo's House of Thirst 2025-Current
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Lymphatic Breast Health Training // Anja Robinson 2025
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Women's Nourishment & Psychology // Niecia Nelson 2023-Current
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Postpartum Physiology // Rachelle Garcia Seliga 2022
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Cooking, Rewilding, & Wild Foods Teacher // Wild Abundance 2021-Current
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Self Published Author // Recipe, Remedy, & Ritual Cookbooks
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Butchery Classes // Applied Anatomist 2022
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Farm to Table Pop- Up Chef // Teton Valley in Idaho 2021
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Grass Fed & Infused Ghee // Goddess Ghee 2018-2020
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Foraging, Herbalism, Paganism Apprentice // Blood and Spicebush 2018-2019
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Women's Ayurvedic Counselor (400hr) // Ayuskama Ayurveda​ 2017
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Training in Women's Hormonal Health // Isla Burgess 2016
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Red Tent Facilitator // Internationally
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Over 12 years of self study and practice in the art of traditional food ways including raising and processing chickens, baking sourdough, fermentation, medicine making, & wild foraging.
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To tell you a little bit more about me as a person outside of the work I offer my community, I can describe my way of life best as a "slow simmer" - a delicate balance between actively engaging what inspires me and savoring the simple slow joys of life like wandering the woods, baking sourdough, carving woodblock art, building fires in my backyard, & exploring the symbolic realms through dreams, color, & earth-based ritual.
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Though I travel often for pleasure & work, I know home and community to be at the base of the Black Mountains in Western North Carolina, ancestral homeland of the Eastern band of Cherokee.
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Thank you for joining me here. May your bread be well buttered and stories rich with laughter.
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With Warmth,
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