I’m Kelly. I’m a writer, photographer, artist, craft dabbler in all things land based, a botanist, herbalist, gardener, ethnobotanist, researcher, renegade journalist of sorts.

I run the Ground Shots Podcast where I interview or have conversations with interesting kin doing work that connects somehow with art+ecology+activism.

I do Ground Shots botanical research work that I have conducted on the road or occasionally in place for periods of time over the last decade, with the goals of providing alternative ways of contextualizing plants in modern times.

In my work, I concentrate on asking questions, weave what seem to others like disparate unrelated ideas about land connection together and demonstrate how they might be relevant to our thought process or feeling about ourselves belonging in place with the land.

I like to do long walks, live simply, document friends and comrades who inspire me, gather food and craft material from the land while thinking critically about what it means to tend, learn new ecological and cultural threads to tie in, and more.

The heart of my work is curiosity, beauty, and collaboration with others as we can’t shift out connection to ecology without also being woven and working together to reimagine new futures.