I was born in spring. I am in forward motion because I have not yet arrived. I am spring power — and this collection is both a mirror of the righteous emergence happening in my spring garden, and a deeper exploration of my own power in a world currently driven by force.

As an Aries I think a lot about power — what it is, what it is not, and how best mine serves me. This year’s spring garden, set against a world seemingly saturated in force, gave me more clarity on how power rises and recedes. How it is yielded or surrendered, flexed or softened.

I have spent years teetering on the edge between power and force — discovering the depths and dimensions of all the power that lives inside me. Force coerces, intimidates, and diminishes everything it touches. Power creates, enlivens, furthers — rooted in love, courage, and reverence, it produces willing cooperation, not opposition. A spring garden understands power instinctually, generating endlessly and without depletion, each season before it is feeding the next— the underearth of winter, the release of fall, the fruiting of summer — all of it making the rising of spring possible.

I recognize myself in the garden, learning trust through this lens of seasons— my nature, like nature itself, a series of energies of varying intensities, and in spring they rise with a surge. This collection is a metaphor for that rising— bold, alive, and bursting with full intensity with the sole purpose of movement forward.

The intensity is reflected through the potent vigor of sharpness and texture at every angle, edge, leaf, and bloom — green garlic surging, sweet peas delicate but deceptively vigorous, parsley leaves elongating, chive blossoms popping, spearmint electric and clean, anise hyssop unfurling licorice leaves, red-veined sorrel citric and edgy, fennel fronds fluffy, celery leaf taut.

The erupting soft-stemmed herbs— mints, parsley, dill, cilantro — cut into large, jagged renditions, create excessive texture. The winter herbs, abundant with new fierce growth and flowers offering soft power, like rosemary lighter and more perfumed, new shoots of sage less pungent and greener, marjoram less sultry in youth.  Every part of the plant — pollen, stems, flowers, seeds, shells, pith — contributes its unique imprint of this exact moment, together an orchestra of energy.

Pairings run from quintessential spring — peas and mint, strawberries and rhubarb, earthy, tangy goat and sheep milk cheeses — to wild new combinations born from my Aries creative instinct: magnolia petals with their gingery, cardamom disposition in an herbal chai spice salty-sugar offering. Some are deconstructions, like strawberry shortcake and my favorite fennel pea salad.

My bolted broccolis used excessively throughout gifted me an unexpected sharp, bean-like seed pod carrying a green, electric heat. I used them in the radish salt. Nature has a way of constantly shape-shifting flavor, and this collection explores so many new discoveries. Newly formed green mulberries caught between flower and fruit: delicate, sweet, vegetal were the beautiful result of tardiness in harvest on my part.

Through the making of this collection, my own power came into sharper focus. What emerged are some of my most energetic flavor combinations — born from this moment in my California garden — and a deeper trust in my own instincts. Rising is what the world needs more of, particularly the powerfully righteous kind.

Use generously and creatively.

For those purchasing the entire spring collection a gift of one of my experimental adventures: Strawberry Shortcake Herbal Confectionery Sugar, essentially its sweet herbal fairy dust of spring power.

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