Kate Swisher Nov 13, 20202 minFolding, Unfolding Folding My mentor sent me a letter in the mail the week I graduated from college. Folded inside was a pressed pansy. She wrote "I found t...
Kate Swisher Nov 2, 20209 minA Phoenix Needs Time To Rise: Part TwoThis is a two part story that discusses how ecologically appropriate, fire-resistant growth in Oregon and California can help pollinators...
Kate Swisher Oct 1, 20206 minA Phoenix Needs Time to Rise: Part OneThis is a two part story that discusses how ecologically appropriate, fire-resistant growth in Oregon and California will help native pol...
Kate Swisher Sep 14, 20206 minOn Friendship & Healing We take turns swimming in the pool. It’s a hot August afternoon in Sacramento. I’m sitting on the sidelines, dangling my feet over the po...
Kate Swisher Sep 11, 20204 minStories in SmokeI drove through the wooden gates of Sweet Water Farm—a property just fifteen minutes from the Rogue River—on Sunday afternoon. Three days...
Kate Swisher Aug 31, 20204 minHoney Flood "Poetry will choose the small moment of pause just to look at what's really happening, to look at a few layers deep, and to let that smal...
Kate Swisher Aug 23, 20202 minFlashes of Orange August 22nd—raging wildfires burn up and down California. I wake up feeling anxious. Usually the season starts in October, not August. It...
Kate Swisher Aug 19, 20203 minThe Be(e)ginning I'm starting as locally as I can: my backyard. I grew up in Marin County, California - just north of San Francisco. It is beautiful here,...