Asheville Private Chef // Kearsley's Kitchen

Bioregional Chef

Postpartum Practitioner

Health Arts &

Food Skills Educator

Curating Seasonal Dining Experiences, Immersive Classes,

& Deeply Nourishing Care

My relationship to nourishment is infused with a romance for flavor, story, beauty, & the Earth.

The heart of my work began over a decade ago when health flare ups brought me down a shape-shifting path of learning how to radically care for myself. Guided by many great mentors and a reverential relationship with the Earth, I forged a way of life rooted in seasonal, local, & creative living. I've known what deep exhaustion feels like and I also know the slow, delicious ways to court vitality back through eating real food, recovering ancestral skills like foraging & butchery, & choosing a life filled with purpose.

I've been fortunate to travel the world studying the culinary arts & integrative medicine, recognizing them as inextricably intertwined. The "art of nourishment" as I call it has been my focus since opening Kearsley's Kitchen back in 2020 & I couldn't do it without the dirt caked work boots of the many farmers in this area who I feature on my menus. Sharing the knowledge and beauty I've been given thru flavorful meals, 1 on 1 client work, & immersive classes provides me a whole lot of meaning. At this pivotal moment in time I feel that what we eat, how we live, and the value we place on relationship matters - for our bodies, for the Earth, and for the larger story we are writing together.

I hope that my work can invite others to live slower, cultivate meaningful relationships, & center what brings them pleasure.

(like sourdough grilled over open fire & candle-lit dinners)

Let's Get You Nourished

Lineage & Training

My work is rooted in years of apprenticeship & study with incredible mentors and organizations since 2013, including:

::Culinary Arts::

in addition to working as a private chef since 2020 & innumerable chefs I've had the pleasure to work with

Butchery // Applied Anatomist

Butchery // Jonathan Pridgen for Cúrate

Teacher for Cooking Courses // Wild Abundance

Grass-Fed & Infused Ghee // Good New's Ghee

Wild Food, Herbs. + Folk Ways // Blood and Spicebush

Self Published Author // Recipe, Remedy, & Ritual Cookbooks

::Health Arts::

HTMA Mineral-Arts // Susan Cachay

Lymphatic Breast Health // Anja Robinson

Women's Nourishment & Psychology // Niecia Nelson

Postpartum Physiology // Rachelle Garcia Seliga

Women's Ayurvedic Counselor (300hr) // Ayuskama Ayurveda

Women's Hormonal Health // Isla Burgess

Over 13 years of self study and practice in the art of traditional food ways & the health arts including raising and processing chickens, honing my knives in butchery, baking sourdough, fermentating all sorts of things, medicine making, & wild foraging.

To tell you a little bit more about me as a person outside of the work I offer my community, I can describe my way of life best as a "slow simmer" - a delicate balance between actively engaging what inspires me and savoring the simple slow joys of life like wandering the woods, reading cookbooks or fiction/myth, carving woodblock art, building fires, & exploring the symbolic realms through dreams, color, & earth-based ritual.

Though I travel often for pleasure & work, I know home and community to be at the base of the Black Mountains near the South Toe river in Western North Carolina, ancestral homeland of the Eastern band of Cherokee.

Thank you for joining me here. May your bread be well buttered and stories rich with laughter.

With Warmth,