Hi, my name is Kathy. A dream I shared with my mom at an early age was that I wanted to have a horse ranch in Hawaii and have 12 kids. Well, my dream didn’t actualize exactly how I saw it in my head back in the ’50’s, however all the parts of it have happened in my life.

When my 3 kids were young, we were small dairy farmers in Wisconsin. We home birthed, we home schooled, we were involved in community children’s theater and for many years we welcomed black kids from Mississippi and more fortunate kids from Mexico and Central America into our modest farm homestead lifestyle. My life in northern NM included being part of an art cooperative teaching kids about the art of playing with clay. So my dream of 12 kids was easily fulfilled.

During that time I had no idea about child trafficking….in fact not until within the past couple of years. We just wanted our kids to become familiar with kids from all kinds of backgrounds. I believe that is vital to the health of “our” kids/all kids. The health and wellbeing of kids has been important to me.

I have been a lifelong organic, regenerative, biodynamic farmer….from dairy farming to farmers market vegetable growing to farm to table growing to hemp cultivation for CBD. For me, food is medicine and along with that having our hands and bare feet on the ground is very important to the health and wellbeing of us all.

With this in mind, what’s the vision for myself with Awake and Bold? Many things, however, and primarily, helping kids once they are rescued to come back to balance by bringing them into the garden…..guiding them back to nurturing, nourishing and loving themselves on many levels through nurturing and caring for all life in the garden.