“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”  -Anaïs Nin

If I can help one person transform their thinking and reduce suffering through different food choices, or one restaurant provide an opportunity for a diner, like me, to feel welcome to order from their artfully crafted and delicious plant-based menu options, my soul will have realized its dream.

My journey from looming health fears to rabbit-hole education and research to deep knowing and insightful introspection, finally aligned with my inner (self-professed) “wild weirdo” wisdom turned meatless magic to become Wild Plant Kitchen. 

I felt it in my body. This was my point of no return.

This path was one I mostly walked alone. 

Almost everyone in my life was not in the same place or mindset.

The “norm”, the traditions, the multi-generational, “handed down from Grandma” recipes, the meat and cheese heavy menu options everywhere, why question it all?  The path of least resistance was tempting and comfortable, until it wasn’t.

A tiny rebellion began to grow and awaken in my soul. I wasn’t created to follow the rules that so blatantly programmed my entire life, even though I always, well mostly, had.

And at what cost? 

Life in a shadowbox? Not recognizing myself in the mirror? A future of food-related, chronic illness that snuffed out the lives of so many that I loved or compromised their freedom to enjoy the lives they wanted to live? I couldn’t.

A storm was brewing in me that created a tsunami of emotions about what I was told my entire life about food, about choices, about surviving, about thriving.

I realized then that we don’t know what we don’t know and I didn’t know for a very long time. 

My mission is to share my experience of eating from the fringes beyond what most consider “mainstream” and to help others who seek to travel this path know the options, feel less alone and become more empowered to choose what feels right for them despite the noise.

It was divine intervention that brought me here. A place where I feel most alive and aligned with my highest purpose.

Sharing, supporting, sustaining and serving. I'm here to help!