Peak Season
Web Design and Branding
Peak Season is creating access to Maine grown foods, with a focus and foundation in ethically sourced produce, and responsibility to the customer AND the vendor. “We may have varying seasons in Maine, but our role is to source an abundance of produce year round. There is always produce to celebrate and there is always something that is in Peak Season.”
Mycorrising
Web Design, Photography & Identity Consultation
Mycorrising offers a holistic approach to conscientious, collaborative, and strategic development of both internal cultures and structures for organizations. By examining patterns, structures, and cultures through a lens both broader and older than colonization, Mycorrising can illuminate new pathways for leadership, education, and organizational modalities which are rooted in supportive, more equitable paradigms.
“Heather helped me see a part of me more clearly through the intention and energy in what she delivered. Heather is really honest and is grounded from that place that shows a special and real kind of love.” - Estephanie Martinez-Alfonzo, Founder
One Willow Apothecaries
Audio Engineer & Producer
“Heather is a rare gem in the world of artistic freelancers. She is talented and visionary but also highly organized, professional, punctual and a great communicator." - Asia Suler, Founder
One Willow Apothecaries brought me on to edit and produce guided meditations and audio lessons for many of their online offerings, including Pussy Portal, Business as a Spiritual Journey, and Writing the Earth’s Voice.
Wexler Oral History Project
Traveling Videographer & Photographer
"Heather is a deeply gratifying and wondrous person to work with. She embodies a rare combination of skills: intimate knowledge of technology and media; an expansive understanding of culture, humanity, and nature; and a highly empathic way of working with people of all kinds. The work that came out of collaborating with Heather is some of the best I've ever done. Her ability to hold space, support, and reflect is both intuitive and clear. She has a sharp, beautiful, and subtle aesthetic that would enhance any project. I'm not the only one to associate the word MAGIC with Heather. I feel extremely lucky to have worked with Heather and will seek out opportunities to do so again." Christa Whitney, director of the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project
Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 1000 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture. I have been lucky enough to travel for many years and hold space for countless interviews.
Within Magazine
Video Editor & Audio Engineer
I created a Kickstarter video for Within Magazine, a magazine about leadership for women in design/tech.
597 backers pledged $77,941 to help bring this project to life.
“Within represents all women/womxn and non-binary people. We do not believe masculine leadership is bad, and feminine leadership is good. We do believe that in order to thrive, society needs the full spectrum of what humans have to offer regardless of gender, race, class, sexuality, religion, or nation.”
LICHEN CENTER
Web Design, Copy & Digital Presence
LICHEN centers interconnection, queerness, animism / deep-ecology, grief work and non-appropriative land based honoring, with hope that these seeds will be planted within and tended by those who visit. LICHEN wishes to hold space for the tending and mending of the human nature split; to practice listening and exploring how we may be in relation with this land in a deeply rooted and respectful way. LICHEN is a place to reweave and remember our relations.
The Camden Conference
Video Editing, Media Management, Social Media Management & Archive Digitization
The Camden Conference was founded in 1987 as a nonprofit, non-partisan educational organization whose mission is to foster informed discourse on world issues. Today, when there is an increasing inclination to oversimplify complex questions, the Camden Conference is proudest of its steadfast commitment to nonpartisan and in-depth discussion of the critical global challenges facing the world.
Since 2015 I have worked behind the scenes as the conference’s live editor, putting together videos in real time and getting them online for free and public access as each conference finishes. I also oversaw the digitization and archiving of all filmed conferences from start to finish, offered support in social media management, and media managed the conference’s extensive archive of digital media.
"Heather is a delight to work with - in addition to being highly competent and responsive!" - Kimberly Scott, Executive Director
Daybreak Growers Alliance
Photographer
In an ever changing agricultural landscape and consumer marketplace, it is becoming continually more apparent that small farmers need to work together to build collaborative economic paths forward for a durable, viable future. Daybreak Growers Alliance is working to build a sustainable, resilient, and thriving future for small farmers and producers in Maine, while making access to local, top quality food easy and flexibility for their customers. I was hired to document one full season and meet the farmers behind this very special project.
Tinder Hearth
Barn Fundraising Video
Tinder Hearth was in need of a full barn revamp to continue hosting their offerings to the community; including pizza night, open mic, and gatherings. They have successfully been able to both raise the funds and renovate the barn!
Midcoast Holistic
Web & Logo Design, Copy, Database Setup
Midcoast Holistic is a free online platform with a searchable database where searchers can look through a broad spectrum of offerings and find the inclusive care they need. This space focuses on many overlooked offerings, like weight-neutral care, trauma-informed care, and safe options for marginalized folks. This project is currently looking for funding to keep it up and running.
Roots & Wings
Video Editor & Audio Engineer
Roots & Wings profiles WOC chefs who use food as a conduit for cultural awareness and as a means of perpetuating their cultural traditions. Roots & Wings: Yana Gilbuena is a short profile of Yana Gilbuena, founder of the SALO Project.
2020 OFFICIAL SELECTION: CAAMFest, The Food Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Silicon Valley Asian Pacific FilmFest
In Relation With Plant Beings
Layout, Design, Workflow, & Technology Support
We are excited to share with you the first volume of In Relation with Plant Beings, a zine by the Maine* Herbal Gathering Community.
The Maine* Herbal Gathering Community is working to decolonize the ways we connect with plant medicine, and we will continue to foster spaces for open conversation among plant lovers on how we can better embed this work throughout our organizing & our herbal initiatives.
We hope this zine speaks to everyone who loves the plants as much as we do.
*what is now referred to as “Maine” is part of the traditional territory known as Wabanaki
Moriah Helms
Web Design, Photography, Brand Consultation, Print Marketing Material & Copy Editing
“Heather provides a set of services rarely found together. Really quality web design, photo & video work, and intuitive brand coaching, all woven together with literal magic. Heather designed my website after becoming familiar with the practice and energetics of my work. She also took all the photos - she has an uncanny eye and makes visible the parts of us that we thought no one else could see. A photoshoot with Heather is like a ritual, and a gift, and an adventure. But that’s not all! Heather ALSO held my hand in a way NO ONE has ever done (but that I have been wanting for years) through writing my copy in a way that is simple, elegant, and intuitive. When I felt blocked, she led me into the forest (literally), sat down in a patch of sunlight, tuned in, and channeled the first line of my home page right out into the world. She helped me find my voice when it was hiding. I cannot recommend her enough!" - Moriah
The Ground Shots Podcast
Audio Engineer & Producer
"Heather is a joy to work with. She helped me envision putting my podcast out into the world, and without her help and encouragement, I maybe would have never initiated it. She has patiently worked with my crazy schedule living on the road while also holding clear but gentle boundaries and has always been willing to brainstorm with me when I run into a technical or creative issue." - Kelly Moody, Creator
The Ground Shots Podcast is an audio project exploring our relationship to ecology through conversations and storytelling. How do we do our work in the modern age, when the urgency of ecological and social collapse feels looming? How do we creatively and whole-heartedly navigate our relationships with one another and the land? With a 5 star rating and bountiful following, I feel grateful to help Kelly Moody bring this podcast to life and keep the conversations going in my own small way.
“Thanks for helping to share this important knowledge. This is one of my favorite podcasts. I love the content. You have some amazing guests, many of whom have profound knowledge and their voices need to be amplified. I wish this sort of info was more accessible. Please keep up this work.” - Hillhippie
“Fascinating, insightful, and necessary Kelly Moody manages to connect with the most incredible range of people, and to share stories in a thoughtful and fascinating manner. Thanks for opening up these deeply important conversations, Kelly — can’t wait to see what you cover next!” - jnb2122
“Kelly’s minimalist, traveling lifestyle is a lived inquiry into her own relationship with the land known (by dominant culture) as North America. Always tuned in to the big stories that make up the cultural fabric of the places she travels through, Kelly draws out cozy tales of danger, rebellion and tenderness from an eclectic collection of mavericks. A Ground Shots episode is like a long walk with a kindred person, or a late night by a fireside where each question brings you closer to edgy, vulnerable and contradictory truths at the core of the human-land relationship today.” - tilkefinn
Gabrielle Claire Jansen
Web Design, Photography, & Copy Editing
“Heather is an intuitive web-doula, who will see you, your practice and the gift you have to share with the world. She will hold your hand, soothe your anxieties and encourage you to keep digging until you have retrieved the soul of your work - then she’ll help you bring it into the light. Heather's commitment to intuitive practice is my favorite part of her approach and her combination of technical know-how and healing work - the ability to see her clients - and hold their hand is a rare gift. Heather supported and guided me to creating an incredible container for my work that feels authentic, honest and is beautiful. She helped me make a gigantic leap into the world and I thank her for that.” - Gabrielle
Thyme Herbal
Video Production, Photography, Web Design, Print & Graphic Design
"Working with Heather is pure joy. She immediately understood my design aesthetic, mission and practical needs and confidently turned my dream into a reality - adding her own special touches and offering great advice along the way." - Brittany Nickerson, Founder
A long and ongoing collaboration, I have been given the opportunity to offer most of my gifts to Thyme Herbal. What started off as a request to create videos for an online course called “The Art of Home Herbalism,” lead to my designing the website, creating a bio video, taking product shots, portraits, print material and graphics.