Rowan Talcott
“I learned more about storytelling from watching my father graft apple branches than from any writing workshop. You take something wild and something cultivated, create the right conditions for connection, and trust the living system to do the rest. That’s what good writing does—it grafts new possibilities onto ancient wisdom.”
Rowan Talcott grew up with dirt under her fingernails and apple blossoms in her hair on a working farm in upstate New York, where she mastered the ancient art of tree propagation alongside her father. This early immersion in the rhythms of sustainable agriculture laid the foundation for a life dedicated to nurturing both land and community.
After honing her skills as a transplanter in local greenhouses—learning firsthand how tender seedlings transform into thriving ecosystems—Rowan pursued her passion academically, earning degrees in Biology and Environmental Studies from Middlebury College in Vermont. But her real education has always happened with her hands in the soil and her heart connected to the natural world.
Today, Rowan channels her expertise in sustainable farming, ecological restoration, and regenerative living into creating spaces where people and planet can heal together. She’s currently volunteering with Roots of Recovery in Hampstead, North Carolina, where she’s helping build a tiny home community for homeless women and their children—a living example of the conscious, resilient communities she writes about in Living Woke.
When she’s not propagating hope through housing or tending to biodiversity projects, Rowan is developing her speculative fiction series Weather Witches: Children of the Diaspora, exploring how climate crisis intersects with cultural displacement and inherited wisdom.
Rowan believes that sustainable community living isn’t just about going off-grid—it’s about going deeper into connection with each other and the earth that sustains us all.
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