welcome, friends,
I’m Alyson Morgan, a writer, photographer, folk herbalist, and mother exploring the intersections of home, ecology, and collective care. Through storytelling, design, and daily practice, I seek to reimagine what it means to live in deep relationship with the earth and each other.
My work is rooted in ecological awareness and the rhythms of a thoughtful, enduring home whether through canning homegrown food, tending a garden, or crafting spaces that nourish. I believe in reclaiming slowness, honoring ancestral wisdom, and fostering a more sustainable, reciprocal way of being.
Through writing, photography, my online apothecary, and collaborative projects, I weave together a vision of home and community as places of resilience, restoration, and belonging.
Although my degree is in International Relations with a focus on Climate Change, Natural Resource Use, and Global Health from the University of California, Davis, my work is in healing and reimagining home. Understanding how global capitalism extracts from both people and the planet is only the beginning; my focus is on reclamation, and repair, starting within the spaces we inhabit.
Home is both a personal refuge and a political act. The way we design and tend to our spaces from choosing timeworn over disposable, organic over extractive, communal over individualistic, shapes not only our daily lives but the larger systems we participate in. I help others divest from capitalism’s cycles of consumption through small but radical acts: hanging laundry to dry, tending a compost pile, mending what is broken, reclaiming materials, and sourcing objects with history and care. These choices are more than aesthetic; they are refusals of disposability and disconnection, acts of care that defy capitalism’s relentless demand for speed, consumption, and extraction.
By embracing the simple, anti-capitalist joys of slowness, interdependence, and tending to land and home, we open pathways to reimagine our collective future, one built not on scarcity and domination, but on sovereignty, empowerment, and deep kinship with each other and the earth.
“Alyson’s way with words is similar in essence to her way with the earth. Her ability to distill the potent down to the digestible leaves us wanting more. She has a gentle yet powerful way of conveying knowledge that goes beyond the traditional. Her images are poetry. Her words are full of the very wisdom we need now more than ever. As she says, we are living in a time of an unveiling, and this book does that and so much more.—”
WHO ARE FLOWER ESSENCES FOR?
You, who are searching for a grounded spirituality amidst climate chaos. You, who wish to be in right relationship with others and the earth. You, who are decolonizing your hearts + minds. You, who are reclaiming your worth and crafting intentional lives.
With herbs + flowers by your side, you are never alone. My wish is for you to carry pieces of earth in your pockets and stop when you hear the birdsong. To weave the earth into everything you do.
I started offering my small-batch flower essences after experiencing the deep healing and guidance available to us when we connect with the natural world. I come from a lineage of black business owners, my grandfather and great-great-great-grandmother, and I try to infuse my business with their perseverance and legacy.
I grow the blossoms in my garden, where I listen as the plants tell me which blooms to bring together into a formula. Then I craft the essences in small batches on our homestead.