Meet your guide…

Kathy White has been a tree hugger all her life.  Any chance to get to the woods would lure her. Kathy pursued an Environmental science degree in college, with emphasis on field botany and native plants.  Her love of the plant kingdom brought her to Florida Keys where she proceeded to grow the native and indigenous plants.  This then led to the study of herbs and permaculture.   Life took a turn, and she went back to school to become an ultrasound tech. she practiced this in Asheville, NC for ten years.  Then she took the skill on the road and traveled the country. Of course, finding hiking along the way.  Now retired from that career and caretakes and tends 25 acres of wooded land in Cedar Grove, NC.   Creating paths through the forest became an obsession. As she questioned this use of time, she found out about Forest Therapy.  Thus began her study and certification with ANFT.  She is combining her interest in growing native plants, nut trees, woodland medicine plants, herbs, permaculture, food forests and forest bathing.  Come along and join in and wander among the forest of Willow Oak Sanctuary.  See what magic and wonder you can find in the forest.