Cat & Sprout

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...

This is a two part story that discusses how ecologically appropriate, fire-resistant growth in Oregon and California can help pollinators...

This is a two part story that discusses how ecologically appropriate, fire-resistant growth in Oregon and California will help native pol...

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...

I drove through the wooden gates of Sweet Water Farm—a property just fifteen minutes from the Rogue River—on Sunday afternoon. Three days...

"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...

August 22nd—raging wildfires burn up and down California. I wake up feeling anxious. Usually the season starts in October, not August. It...

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,...