What do you do?
I aim to make plants and the medicine they offer more accessible to the humans around me while being a wide eyed steward of this land that Lummi, Nooksack and Coast + Puget Sound Salish people have been in relationship with for so long. My current expressions of this are Goldstatus Botanicals and a collaborative project, Herbal Abundance CSA. I also am a private caterer, bartender and event organizer with a goal of clear communication, community building, and delicious food and beverage. I am a founding member of the Bellingham Handmade Collective, and I work with the board of the Shuksan Conservancy Project.
Advice/words of wisdom that affected your life you’d like to pass on?
I've recently been hit hard by the knowledge that growth in any way takes time. What I want will not happen tomorrow unless I ruin myself to make it happen. So, I ask people I admire to tell me their timelines, and I realize that my neighbor's beautiful garden took 22 years to get to where it is, and it's much different than she first imagined. I see that people go through phases and seasons, and I work to hold this knowledge close to my heart because I am not living to reinvent the wheel- I'm living to continue to create in and behold these wonderful communities and glorious spaces in the time I have. Simultaneously, I value the advice to give all your versions of yourself grace. My young self is still within my older self, and all these selves will be in my dying self, and I want to die at peace with myself and my actions- so I'm working on daily kindness, and quietude, and dreaming big and being glad when good things happen.