About me

Core Values

My passion is for sharing skills and lifestyle amendments so that we can individually and collectively re-member our place in nature.

I am called to share this earth-connected work for two reasons. Firstly, so that others can join in this reverence and wonder. But mostly, it’s only by recommitting daily to our sacred contract with the earth that we can build a future in which we can live. As I see it, the contract is this: I am fed, my thirst is slaked, and all my needs can be met; this can only occur if we steward the earth in right relation.

History

My passion is for sharing ancestral skills and lifestyle alignment resources so that we can individually and collectively re-member (come back into embodied relationship with) our place on this planet. I am called to share this earth-connected work for two reasons. Firstly, so that others can join in the reverence and wonder I feel every day. But mostly, it’s only by recommitting daily to our sacred contract with the earth that we can build a future in which we can live. As I see it, the contract is this: I am fed, my thirst is slaked, and all my needs can be met; this can only occur if we steward the earth in right relation.

I don’t have all the right words to express what it means to be a white settler on this land who engages earth-connection practices. I have benefited from my family’s legacy of colonization (both my maternal and paternal lines were Irish and Western European colonizers on the land we now know as Berkeley and the South Bay Area going back to the late 1840s and early 1850s, inextricably connecting them in the displacement and genocide of the original peoples of those lands). With this complicated legacy as my inheritance, I do my best to recognize the ancestral stewards of those lands and the ones of the land on which I now live. I aspire to stand in solidarity with the past, present, and future peoples of these lands in their fight against the ongoing genocide of indigenous people and lifeways. And I humbly wish to build authentic relationships with these communities and work toward rematriation, ancestral lineage healing, and the liberation of all people. I have a long way to go in this process, and offer gratitude to all the teachers and community who have lit my way in this space. I also honor the well and good ancestors and transcestors of my lineage (I’m assuming these wise and well ones are mostly from deeptime) and give gratitude for the prayers they had for me during their lives, and their support of me during my life.

While I grew up eating of the earth (through foraging plants, tending gardens, and the slaughtering of livestock), mushrooms didn’t enter my life until 2018. Since the first time I identified, cooked, and ate my own mushroom find (Coprinellus micaceus, which has a special place in my heart now), I’ve been obsessed. I’ve been an active member of the Sonoma Mycological Association since September 2018, and of the Mendocino Coast Mushroom Club since 2022. While foraging edible mushrooms for the kitchen was my doorway into the fungal queendom, my interest quickly expanded to fungal ecological roles as a whole, dyeing fiber with mushrooms and lichens, and some cloning and growing of mushrooms at home. Eventually, I couldn’t keep the joy I find in these practices to myself and I began offering guided plant or mushroom hikes and ancestral skill practice workshops (salve making, wild fermentation, mushroom, lichen, and plant dyeing, making cord out of plants, slaughtering support, etc.) in late 2020 and early 2021.

It’s my passion to share the gifts of foraging, land connection, and ancestral skills practices with friends old and new. To learn more about my offerings, visit my workshop page at humanbecoming.me/workshops, or head right to the mushroom foraging page at humanbecoming.me/mushroom-foraging.