I process poultry, shear sheep, practice energy medicine with domestic animals (pets & livestock) and am a grocery clerk at First Bloom, where we sell locally harvested and produced foods and goods.
I am available for consulting and hands-on assistance in the processing of poultry: chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, guinea hens… and any other bird that can be farmed! I have been processing poultry since 2019 under the guidance of Stone & Thistle, a farm that has been engaged in the harvest of their farmed poultry for 30+ years. I am experienced in every part of the process including slaughtering, eviscerating, observing the innards for ill-health, butchering, bagging and appropriately storing the meat – approaching these tasks in ways that are best for the health of the bird and the quality of the meat.
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Below are my rates for poultry processing:
Consultation for setting up an on-farm poultry slaughter facility*
Initial meeting - $150 / 2 hrs.
Follow-up meetings - $50 / 1 hr.
*facility set-up is for the harvest of less than 1000 birds/season
Hands-on assistance at on-farm poultry slaughter facility
$25 / 1 hr.**
$0.50 / 1 mi. round trip
**flat rate of $100, if we do not meet 4 hrs. / day
I have been shearing sheep since 2022 under the guidance of experienced shearers in Delaware County and beyond. Currently, I offer shearing and hoof-trimming services to sheep farmers.
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Below are my rates for shearing & hoof-trimming:
$10 / sheep, sheared***
$4 / sheep, hoof-trim
$0.50 / mi. round-trip
*** flat rate of $60, if flock is less than six sheep
I have spent the last five years farming livestock at Succurro and Stone & Thistle, working primarily with small ruminants, pigs, poultry and livestock guardian dogs. This experience has garnered my interest in the relationship between myself and the animals I work with; particularly in the mutual support, deep appreciation and interdependent dynamic that exists between us. In an effort to explore this relationship and best handle the livestock I work with, I practice SourcePoint Therapy® and The BodyTalk System™: energy medicine modalities that focus on the inherent health in each being, using simple protocols to facilitate a stronger connection between the being (human and animal) and the energetic field that contains the information of health; as well as between myself and the field. From 2019 until 2024, I was a practitioner-in-training under the mentorship of Succurro co-founders and SourcePoint Therapy® teachers, Owyn Ruck & Damian McCann. During this time, I was practicing primarily with Succurro’s livestock as well as with the greater Delaware County community's dogs, cats, and horses.
Currently, I offer a combination of SourcePoint Therapy® & BodyTalk System™ sessions, as a home-visit, farm-visit, or on Zoom.
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Below are my rates for one-on-one sessions:
$50 / session
+ $0.50/mi. round trip for home & farm visits
I moved to East Meredith, New York in January, 2019. Pretty quickly, I felt at home with the mountains, dirt roads, spaciousness, silence, and smells of the farm. It wasn't like any place I knew from experience, but it felt deeply familiar.
I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut where white picket fences surrounded manicured lawns and pristine houses. At a point in my childhood, I noticed a desire for a different environment; one where I could experience myself as a part of nature rather than separate from it.
In the early years of my 20s, I spent some time exploring the spacious lands of Cape Town and its surrounding areas in South Africa, which was my first experience of fulfilling this childhood desire of experiencing myself as a part of nature – by way of living with less conveniences, eating more simply, hiking the mountains, and getting to know the local homesteads.
Finding myself back in a city at 25 years old, I struggled to get comfortable in an environment that I was once familiar with, but now feeling completely over-stimulated and overwhelmed by. Knowing that this would be home for at least the next few years, I found support from SourcePoint Therapy® and The BodyTalk System™ : energy medicine modalities that supported my long-term dream of living more in sync with nature. These modalities helped me to peel away the layers of how I thought I should be and instead allow myself to just be. As the be-ing was little by little taking priority over the should be-ing, I left the city lights, tall buildings, and the many conveniences to move to 110 acres of land in East Meredith, to a place called Succurro. This was the place where I would deepen my understanding of these practices, connect with nature, all the while continuing to carve a truly honest path in life for myself. I spent five years at Succurro doing exactly what the little me was desiring: living in a close-knit community in a rural town, waking up everyday with the sun, noticing my body changing alongside the seasons, doing work with my hands, and farming the food that I ate and shared.
In early 2024, I left Succurro to move to a different region of the Western Catskill Mountains, where I reside in a cabin situated on the side of a mountain, with my partner, Parker Manis. He spends much of his days immersed in our property’s forest harvesting trees for wood with the “help” of our two very active canines, Hegel and Ruby! We are big supporters of our community’s farmers, and are busy planning to farm pigs and produce, and keep laying hens, as we continue to get to know this land that we care for and that cares for us.
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