• Marcella Sadlowski, She/They

    Marcella grew up speaking Spanish and eating golumbki (Polish cabbage rolls). Her roots extend to Mexico (maternal) and Poland (paternal).

    Born in Long Beach, Ca, lived in New Mexico: Cochiti Lake, San Ysidro, Ca, and now humbly calls the bay area home. 


    Her Father, like many of his ancestors who settled in the midwest, gardened heavily in Cochiti Lake, NM, making strawberry rhubarb pie from freshly harvested backyard produce. She thinks this short (6 years) but impactful time of her childhood is what sprouted the desire to grow her own food, commune with the land, to stay close to the land.

    However, her Mother’s family comes from farmworkers, braceros, coming back and forth from Mexico to Central Valley, ca., union members, entrepreneurs. So of course, she would be called back to the Earth to tend, sow, and share. 


    Along with growing food, Marcella has a passion for cooking food and nourishing folks. (Re)introducing folks to herbal infusions focused on healing; relieving stress and supporting immune systems.


    Marcella believes food is medicine and wants to share her passion for cooking and her basic knowledge of beneficial herbs for health and wellness in these toxic times. 

    Marcella has experience in education +(outdoor), greywater installation (L2L), catering, and performing arts. Their favorite herb is Lemon Balm.

    Her favorite way to honor the land is through offerings of flowers and songs; al menos cantos, al menos flores…

courtney rae gonzales bio

  • Courtney Rae Gonzales, She/Her

    Courtney’s maternal lineage are primarily from Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, and Sweden, and paternal lineage are primarily from Mexico, the states of Sinaloa, Durango, Chihuahua, and Coahuila. She was born in Napa, grew up in the Sierra Foothills, and has lived in the Bay Area since 2008. She is a Leo Sun, Cancer Moon, Sagittarius Rising, and Taurus Ceres.

    Her interests are in cultivating personal and community health in ways that center the cycles, wisdom, and creativity of Mother Earth, the Cosmos, and our human bodies. She began volunteering on farms and working on food systems issues in the Bay Area in 2010, with a focus on coalition building and organizing. As the creator of Moonlight Floreciendo: A Path Illuminated, she offers online and in person spaces of remembering, nourishing, and blossoming the connections to Self, Ancestors, Lands, and Cosmos. In her experience it is these relationships that have the power to support our healing and provide guidance on our life path. Over the years, largely due to health challenges, her path has taken her into farming, herbal medicine, astrology, and energetic healing practices.


    With a prominent 9th House Venus and a Midheaven ruled by Venus, Courtney knows that part of the reason she is here on Earth at this time is to bring beauty and love into the world through tending the land, sharing flowers, and illuminating that we all have spiritual gifts and intuition that will support our human experiences.


    Courtney also loves roller skating, Sunsets and Sunrises, Rocks, solo road trips, pitbulls, creating collages, birds, long walks through a city, long walks through a forest, Redwoods, Mountains, and seeing other people happy.