Biography

Rachel was born in Utah but has traveled and lived in several other state such as Hawaii, California, and Washington State and finally landed back in Utah.  Her community of lovely incredible people surrounding her is her greatest treasure. Rachel has a deep interest in all things plants, garden, farming. She worked as an earthworm soil specialist in California working with small farms and large farms in their transition to natural process growing. You can easily get her talking deeply about ecosystems and soil biology. Rachel loves nature. She spent the years of 2022-mid 2024 joyfully living in a hammock in the trees, yes even in winter, because she wanted to be closer to nature. 

Rachel has a passion for many types of art such as painting, glass blowing, writing, music, fiber work (hand work), etc. She is currently creating many knitting projects, sewing projects and a felted coat from the wool of an alpaca named Juliet. She has made many unique fiber projects such as needle felted octopus hand warmers and the vest she is wearing in her photo. Working on crafts of all sorts with kids is something Rachel has always loved in her family growing up as the oldest of 7 kids, then on into her jobs in daycare, working as a nanny for families and now handwork here at this school. 

Her biggest dream is to see all the people in the world thriving in their own self-managed ecosystem food forest artistic spaces of love that will thrive for generations. If she could do anything to help make that happen, she would be overjoyed.