Private Chef
Postpartum Practitioner
HTMA Mineral & Nutritional Arts
Herbalist & 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 deep nourishment and a life filled with meaning.
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Food has always been at the center.
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I've been fortunate to travel the world studying integrative medicine and the culinary arts, recognizing them as inextricably intertwined. I've found tremendous meaning and healing in recovering ancestral skills like whole animal butchery, from-scratch cooking, and harvesting herbs to brew into potent home remedies. 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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It is a great pleasure to pour the knowledge and beauty I've been given into the hearts and homes of others. I hope that the flavorful food & immersive classes I share can invite others to live slower, cultivate meaningful relationships, & center what brings them pleasure.
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for me, that will always include real butter.
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My work is rooted in years of apprenticeship & experience in:
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HTMA Mineral-Nutritional Balancing // Susan Cachay
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Women's Nourishment & Psychology // Niecia Nelson
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Postpartum Physiology // Rachelle Garcia Seliga
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Teacher // Wild Abundance
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Self Published Author // Recipe, Remedy, & Ritual Cookbooks
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Butchery // Applied Anatomist
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Foraging, Herbalism, Witchcraft Apprentice // Blood and Spicebush
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Women's Ayurvedic Counselor (400hr) // Ayuskama Ayurveda​
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Women's Hormonal Health // Isla Burgess
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Red Tent Facilitator // Internationally
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Farm to Table Pop- Up Chef // Teton Valley in Idaho
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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, culturing raw milk, and making herbal medicine at home
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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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