About

My name is Kate. I share my journey to a life in balance with nature in videos and words. I also write fiction to cope with the social and climate crises. I am an idealistic dreamer with a heavy dose of realism.

Over the past years, I've gone from simple balcony gardening to restoring a piece of neglected land and growing food there. I learnt how to preserve and store the harvest for winter, how to forage for foood in the wild, and how to cook from scratch.

I haven't always appreciated nature. Honestly, I didn't even start appreciating nature until my husband and I moved to California--and adopted a dog.

When we started diving, I saw first-hand, the effects of humans interacting with nature: plastic at the bottom of the ocean, a fishing line and weight hanging from the lip of a fish larger than my husband, and sargassum seaweed taking over where beautiful giant kelp forests used to provide a playground for seals.

My bubble was burst and slowly my world view crumbled. I kept noticing how badly we are treating this beautiful planet we should be stewarding. What gives us the right? I got angry. I got sad. I tried to fill the void with stuff. And then I decided to change somehting. That something turned out to be everything.

After California, we explored New Zealand, then the Netherlands. At the moment, we are building a life in North-Eastern Germany in a small town near the many lakes of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Here, I am working hard to restore an allotment garden that has been empty for more than a decade, neglected for longer. I'm rebuilt the garden house, set up beds, and grew soil, so we could grow our own food in our second year there. Providing for ourselves, as much as we can, is a first step toward our next big adventure.

Welcome to the journey!