I got here the hard way. These are the things that stuck with me.
Herbs, food, honest writing, and the slow work of finding your way back to solid ground. If something brought you here, you are in the right place.
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What I Stopped Doing in My Yard (And What Showed Up When I Did)
Turn your backyard into a wildlife habitat I stopped caring about raked leaves many autumns ago. I read one thing about what lives in that leaf litter over winter and I could not unknow it. Ground beetles. Native bees. The eggs of moths I had been planting flowers to attract

The 4 herbs I always keep in my kitchen and why
My stomach was doing something it had been doing for weeks, and I finally got tired of waiting for it to stop on its own. That was it. That was how this started for me, officially. I went looking for something that might help, and I kept landing on the

How I stopped making food a project and started making it a practice
I was reading an article about what to eat, and somewhere in the middle of it I realized I had read the same article probably at least four times before. Different website. Different author. Same circular advice that somehow still left me standing in my kitchen not knowing what to
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What I Was Really Going Through When I Started Over
returning to yourself after burnout I did not set out to change my life. I set out to get through the week. That was the spring of 2024. Both grandmothers lost within months of each other. My great-grandmother and grandfather the following year in 2025. Grief was stacking faster than

Why I started Wildground and what I was looking for when I did
For a long time I was looking for something I could not name. I knew it was not another program. I had done programs. I knew it was not a plan with phases and a version of myself waiting at the finish line. I had done that, too. What I