What did your grandmother’s hands know?
Thousands and thousands of hands before ours, rough from love, rough from tending.
I live among the roses, the apple, the willow, the mud pies… making, weaving, tending place.
Find me in the garden. The medicine is already growing there.
I am kin to the salmon, the elk, the raven, the otter, the wide grey sea. My hands are rough from helping our more-than-human family.
Where will you be, love? In these times?
I sit with the grandmothers in council.
What magik will we make in this space between our hands?
COME BACK INTO RELATIONSHIP
Ancestral folk magik is the practice of restoring relationships through ordinary acts of attention, making, remembrance, and reciprocity.
It is not power over the world, but participation in a world that is already alive with magik.
Sometimes an ancestral relationship begins as a feeling.
A pattern that will not resolve. A grief that seems older than you. A place, story, dream, or family line that continues to call your attention. You may not yet understand what it means. You only know that it is asking to be met differently.
Come to the Orchard
This work takes place one-to-one at my apple orchard in Coyle, on the east side of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Away from the noise and expectations of ordinary life, you are given time to slow down, listen, and bring your full attention to what has been calling you.
We begin with your story: the maternal and paternal lines you come from, the patterns you have inherited, and the questions you are carrying now. We do not demand an answer or assume that every ancestral door should be opened. We ask whether the work is welcome, listen for what is ready, and respect what remains quiet.
Together, we explore what belongs to you, what may have traveled through your family line, and what is asking to be remembered, repaired, released, or carried forward differently. What emerges is brought into relationship with your present life through reflection, ritual, and an act of gratitude or offering on the land.
I will not tell you what your ancestors want. I will help you recognize how they may already be speaking, strengthen your own capacity to listen, and discern how you are being invited to respond.
Together, we discern what belongs to you, what belongs to those who came before, and what may now be ready to change.
PRIVATE ANCESTRAL WORK
ROOT & RETURN
A three-session journey into ancestral relationship.
This is a one-to-one journey for times when you need space to be deeply tended. Together, we’ll slow down, listen for what is asking for attention, and work with practices drawn from plant relationship, ancestral tradition, ritual, sound, and the living land. Each session is shaped around you. Offering a place to reconnect with your own knowing, restore what has been depleted, and find your footing in what comes next.
Each session builds upon the last. We gather together on the Olympic Peninsula at the Orchard on Borgeson Rd.
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We explore your maternal and paternal lines, what has brought you to the work, and the question or pattern asking for attention. We begin by seeking consent for deeper ancestral engagement.
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We enter more deeply into the chosen ancestral line and listen for what remains unresolved, what is still alive, and what guidance may be ready to emerge.
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We identify a place on the land where the relationship can be acknowledged through gratitude, blessing, or offering. What emerged is brought into ordinary life through an embodied act of reciprocity.
My Ancestral Journey
My practice brings together formal study, years of apprenticeship, and a life lived in relationship with ancestry and the land. I trained in the Way of the Seabhean with Amantha Murphy and Karin Depiero, studied ethnobotany with Heidi Bohan as well as through The Evergreen State College, and studied herbalism with Lauren Morgan.
My wider foundation includes environmental science, Indigenous studies, native plant stewardship, and earth-based spiritual practice.
Through tending land, cultivating plants, keeping animals, working fleece, making medicine, weaving, gathering food, sharing stories, and sitting in community. I seek to embody inheritance rather than simply remember it, to make my life a blessing to those who came before and those who will come after.
BEGINNING THE JOURNEY
If you find yourself wondering what your grandmother’s hands knew, and what your own hands may still remember, you are warmly invited to reach out.
You do not need to arrive with a clear question or know exactly what you are seeking. Simply share what has been calling your attention, and together we will listen for where the journey might lead.
Upcoming Community Events
November 1, 2026
In 2025, 12 families tended hearth and threshold,
made medicine, told stories, and followed what was ready to be restored.
That cycle is now complete. And something new is forming.
In Fall 2026, this work opens as a weekend gathering and online resource library with ancestral connection practices, food, crafts, and herbal preparations.
A return to the grandmothers and grandfathers through ancestral knowledge, ritual, and lived practice, now even more accessible to our daily rhythms of life.
Learn the old rhythms of turning fleece into fiber by hand. Each participant will receive a fleece from my family’s fourth-generation Border Cheviot flock and gather with a small group of women for a shared washing day. Together, we’ll work through the hands-on techniques and tools used to wash and prepare wool for your chosen project.
You’ll also receive a beautifully illustrated guide to washing, carding, spinning, and working with wool, along with a private coaching session to explore your questions and vision for the finished fiber. From animal and land to something made slowly, beautifully, and with purpose, we’ll follow the thread together.
Rooted Branch acknowledges and honors the traditional and contemporary lands of the S’Klallam (Nəxʷsƛ̕áy̕əm̕) and the Chemakum (Aqokúlo or Čə́məq̓əm) tribes, whose countless generations of people, with their rich cultural heritage and deep connection to the land, continue to shape the place now known as the Upper Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.
We are grateful for their stewardship of the land, plants, and animals, and we offer our respect as we gather in this shared space, acknowledging their ongoing presence and contributions to the community. May we walk in harmony with the traditions of those who came before us. We extend our gratitude and love to all elders, past, current and becoming for their wisdom and knowledge sharing of this magical place that we share with one another.