Mutable Earth Botanicals

08/28/2026

Garden Tour Part 2 - the idea is greens through the winter. We shall see how it plays out. If you have never seen a vole it looks like a little mole with an elephant trunk 😂

08/27/2026

Part 1 today and I’ll share part two tomorrow morning…
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Thank you Small Town Farm and Paulette Littrell for the seeds.
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08/23/2026

Hello friends. It’s been a while.
I haven’t shared here since May, and I hardly know where to begin.
We packed up our home in Austin, said goodbye to a community and landscape that held us for so many years, and moved our family to the mountains of Western North Carolina.
The Mutable Earth shop has been quiet through all of this, and I don’t have plans to open it back up for now. But, of course, the plants keep calling me back.
I am beginning the slow process of getting to know the plants of this place and finding my way into a new relationship with the land around me.
I harvested elderberries and tulsi from our gardens and made an oxymel. My first tincture from this land was mimosa flower, a powerful grief medicine and an old plant ally that feels particularly meaningful to meet again here.
I don’t know who this medicine is for yet. Maybe that is part of the practice too.
Place-based herbalism has never really been about having a shop for me. It is a practice and a relationship that continues through all the seasons of life. We learn the plants around us. We grow them. We harvest. We taste. We make medicine. And through that relationship, we cultivate joy, resilience and connection to the places we call home.
And we are beginning to feel at home here.
The boys have started school, we are eating from our little gardens, and at Green Song Farm we have started putting our first seeds into the ground.
We are taking our time getting to know this land. Walking it, tending springs, beginning the orchard garden, removing old fences and imagining what might grow here in the years ahead.
One of our Green Song project team members, Gabriela, said early on that the spirit of the land has a seat at the table. I keep returning to that as we make plans. We may hold the deed, but we are not the bosses of this land. We are trying to listen, observe and allow the land itself to help shape what comes next.
So that is where I am these days.
Planting seeds. Making medicine. Feeding my family from the garden. Learning a new landscape. And slowly putting down roots.
It feels good to be back here and sharing a little of it with you. 🌿

08/23/2026

Planting Seeds

Greetings friends, It has been about a month since my last update, and somehow summer is already beginning to lean toward fall here in the mountains. We are continuing to settle into our new home, and for the first time I can really say that we are beginning to feel at home here. The boys have start...

07/14/2026

We've Put Down New Roots - An update from our family, Green Song Farm and the mountains.

04/23/2026

04/09/2026

The garden is so darn beautiful and abundant this time of year. These photos are from the last couple of weeks - can you feel the healing and heart shine through?
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There are many ways to join us. From afar, this is the place. In person, we have community events every season. We have two more Community Herbalism Days - Friday April 17th and May 1st from 10-1pm Mark your calendars and bring friends and family to our Spring Shine Celebration and Community Fundraiser on Saturday April 25th from 12-4pm.