Kearsley Tate Schweller

Kearsley (she/her) is the bioregional Chef, folk herbalist, and artist cooking up local flavors in Kearsley’s Kitchen. She shares her seasonally inspired meals and musings in the form of pop-up dinners, private catering, wildcrafted herbal elixirs, and seasonal cookbooks that detail her favorite recipes, herbal remedies, and rituals for connecting with each season. In 2018 Kearsley apprenticed under Becky Beyer and studied Appalachian and European folk traditions that included bioregional wildcrafting and medicine making as well as learning the animistic rituals of her German- British Isles ancestors. She describes her way of life to be the “slow simmer” – a delicate balance between actively tending the skillet and unraveling the need to be perpetually productive by wandering the lush ecosystem of Southern Appalachia, practicing Irish Step dancing, and exploring the art of symbolism, dreams, and earth-based ritual. Read more about Kearsley’s seasonally inspired musings at Kearsley’s Kitchen