HEDGECRAFT & Co.

Rewilding Flora, Fauna, & Folks

My practice is grounded in eco-spirituality, design methodologies, and traditional folk practices.

Through herbalism, coaching, consulting, workshops, writing, and everyday practices, I create space for those looking to deeper their connection to the natural world, to rewild their lives (and/or land), and to navigate the threshold of life and work.

What does

‘hedgecraft’ mean?

(at least to me…)

Hedgecraft is the magical and medicinal knowledge of plantlife. It is an honoring of the threshold between this world and the Otherworld: the physical and spiritual realms. It practices within this liminal space and understands the interconnections between herbalism, dreamwork, ritual, deep intuition, stewardship, community care…the balance between the tangible and mystical.

Hedgecraft is the wise woman, the midwife and healer, the seer. Those who wander in the in-between planes, who live in the folds. Hedgecraft is led by guides: flora, fauna, spirit, ancestors. It appreciates and practices folk magic, along with historical and contemporary knowledge of plants for healing and caring for our physical bodies. 

*in my case, it is also the practice of crafting literal hedges as I rewild old pastureland in rural Kentucky

Hi, I’m Rachel,

For more than fifteen years, I have designed and led programs that help people, organizations, and communities navigate complexity with curiosity, creativity, and strategy. My career has taken me across four continents and into nonprofits, social enterprises, higher education, and grassroots organizations.

My work has ranged from co-designing healing programs alongside survivors of human trafficking in the Philippines, to launching innovation initiatives across East Africa, to building university programs in Appalachia. Throughout each chapter, one question has remained constant:

How do we create conditions where people, ideas, and ecosystems can thrive?

Today, my work brings together several strands that once felt separate.

As a social designer and organizational strategist, I help leaders and organizations cultivate cultures rooted in learning, experimentation, and collaboration. As a coach, I guide individuals through seasons of transition, helping them reconnect with their creativity, clarify what matters most, and move from routines that drain them toward rhythms that sustain them. As a writer and facilitator, I explore the intersections of curiosity, design, ecology, and meaningful work. And through Hedgecraft Care Farm, I practice land stewardship, herbalism, and nature-based education as reminders that regeneration is both a personal and collective practice.

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Hedgecraft Home & Care Farm in Rural Kentucky

Hedgecraft Home & Care Farm is a rewilding and community-care project rooted on seven acres of former cattle pasture in rural Kentucky. What was once a field of grass is slowly being transformed into a thriving ecosystem of native plants, pollinator habitat, medicinal herbs, and wild spaces. Through land stewardship, ecological restoration, and a commitment to reciprocity with the natural world, Hedgecraft Home explores what it means to care for both land and community in an age of disconnection.

This work is guided by the belief that tending the earth and tending ourselves are deeply intertwined. Alongside habitat restoration, Hedgecraft Home serves as a space for learning, gathering, reflection, and reconnecting with seasonal rhythms. It is an ongoing experiment in living more intentionally, cultivating beauty, and creating small pockets of abundance and belonging.

Land acknowledgment: This land is the ancestral home of the Eastern Cherokee Nation of Turtle Island.

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Indigenous Land Acknowledgment.

Statement: I am a steward and caretaker of this parcel of property. But my ancestral roots are not buried here. I fully recognize that while I belong to this land, I cannot speak for this land. I can tend to it, I can build community upon it, and my spirit can connect to it. But it is not my ancestral home. I am a recipient of hospitality and great generosity just by being here. As such a recipient, my role is only to perpetuate hospitality and generosity. I have no right to speak for who should or should not be allowed on this soil. No one is illegal on stolen land built by stolen hands.

Not sure whose land you reside on? Check out this map.