Hi

Just getting started

I decided to start this blog, primarily because I needed a way to get motivated to write, secondly because all the things in my head, especially about plants needs a place to live outside of me. I like stories, the telling, listening and sharing of them. I think it’s a big part of what makes us human. I want to share my stories and hear yours. Friends are always asking me to help with this herb or that. Give advice or guidance through healthy pathways and plant allies so since I am enjoying that I decided it might be fun to share on a larger scale. I’m hoping that this will be a place of learning and sharing. A collection and treasure of healing stories and wild moon adventures. As if we are outside under the moon gathering medicine and sharing our fires, while we laugh and sing under the night stars.

I grew up in the southern part of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range in a tiny mountain town famous for its apples, goldmines, and the historic false front buildings. We lived on sixty acres off grid before it was a more popular thing to do. The wildness with which I lived still pulls my heart strings back there on days when the mist is curling and calling me to come play in it’s secrets. My mother first taught me about the plants, she got so tired of all my questions she told me one day on a hike together to stop asking her and to ask the plants what they did, to sit down and listen to them for they all had their own voices as to what they wanted to tell me. The first plant I ever listened to was buckwheat and as I was pretty young I wanted to know if I could eat it. The answer was yes, so I busily set to make a buckwheat pie with some water and manzanita berries, it was fairly awful but I was 8. Since then I’ve gotten much better at my questions and at making things from wild growing things.

Since then it’s been quite an adventure which I will share through out the many stories I hope to share here. The part of the journey where I am at right now is in the PNW of Oregon in a little town on the coast, it fills my heart cup every day to see the ocean in all their greatness every day, to walk in the forest and listen to the little and large beings that live there who like to share their stories with me.

My plan is to continue learning, sharing and growing, thank you for coming on my journey with me.