I grew up in the garden, and I've never really left it. That early relationship with living things, with patience, cycles, and care, informs everything I photograph and everything I grow.

My life has unfolded in layers: motherhood, a Bachelor's degree from WTAMU, marriage, an MBA, a photography business, nonprofit leadership, and eventually a move to Taos, New Mexico with my husband Sam and our two boys. When we lost my father-in-law to cancer in 2023, he left us our home, our land, and a responsibility to tend it well.

I spent the years that followed healing and building, transforming our property into a regenerative landscape that is now a Certified Monarch Habitat. I became a New Mexico Master Gardener and Certified Garden Consultant, and I teach students at TISA how to grow food and care for the earth.

Garnish Photography sits at the center of it all, a practice as intentional as everything else I do. And together with my husband Sam, we've grown that intention into something larger: Chef & Garnish Collaborative, where farm-to-table dining, garden consulting, and creative work all share the same roots, quite literally on the land we tend together in Taos.