Into Our Own Hands

Gretchen Winterkorn
Into Our Own Hands

Psychotherapist-turned Flower Farmer Gretchen Winterkorn uses her tools in her own life and shares the results of her dirty work - growing as a human and working with her hands. In each episode, Gretchen explores how we can improve our living experiences as humans, create with our hands wherever we are and take more ownership over our own lives. Connecting to hunters, potters, weavers, artists, farmers, kindergarten teachers, acupuncturists and more in her native Hudson Valley, Gretchen is interested in reconnecting to our human legacy as the true builders of our own lives.

  1. 20/01/2023

    OPEN PIT FIRING WILD CLAY: Desperate making with Emily Brownawell

    How an urgent need to make can lead to simple, accessible tools and methods.  Open pit fire the wild clay you harvested and processed with us earlier in the Season - if you don't have land, use a trashcan!  Can your earthenware make the transition to becoming ceramic?  Emily shares her artistic process and methods as a ceramic artist.    This is Part 3 of a three-part making exercise over the season of the show – harvesting wild clay (Ep 2), processing wild clay (Ep 11) and firing your wild clay in an open pit (Season finale and Part 3).   About Emily:  Emily Brownawell is a New York based ceramic artist. She earned her MFA in Ceramics at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Grants and fellowships include the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Technical Assistant, Andrah Scholarship, Research and Creative Projects Award, Bolton Scholarship, and the Virginia Fuller Prize.  She has exhibited at the Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Williamsburg Arts and Historical Center, and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.   Raised by oceanographers across the street from an intertidal region of Long Island Sound, the marine ecosystem played a powerful role throughout her childhood and continues to inform her practice through visual inspiration and systems of organization. Her work focuses on the physicality of the landscape. In her practice, the ceramic process represents a transformation of natural materials into objects of culture and records of time. Through ceramic sculpture and installation, she explores various relationships between natural and synthetic processes.  www.emilybrownawell.com instagram.com/emilybrownawell/ Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

    58min
  2. 25/11/2022

    INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY FARMING & TINY HOUSE LIVING: Sharing life with Beth Romaker and Spencer Crawford

    Meet the strangers-turned-landmates we are experimenting with in intentional community farming.  Beth and Spencer towed a tiny house onto our farmland in September of this year in exchange for labor on our farm.  How to trust and flow with a life shift that like that, keeping a "what if" mind during the whole process.  Imagine transitioning your life into a tiny house and moving it around nomadically.  Beth and Spencer share their love and wisdom of biodiversity, the merits of native plants, how to think about invasive species (including humans) and ways you can show up to an intentional relationship with the natural world.   About Beth & Spencer: Beth Romaker is a woods walker, food grower, tree planter, and homemaker. She has worked in the field of forestry with the nature conservancy, the national parks service, and the forest ecosystem monitoring cooperative doing inventory and monitoring work on long term ecological forest plots as well as forest restoration. She has also worked on various organic farms and most recently, a native tree and wildflower nursery.  Spencer Crawford is a naturalist, forager, and avian field technician with a special focus on grassland breeding birds. Most recently, he worked for the Saltmarsh Habitat & Avian Research Program studying Saltmarsh Sparrow and Seaside Sparrow demographics for two years. This upcoming spring he will be working on a demography study of the Golden-winged Warbler and Blue-winged Warbler.  Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

    54min
  3. 09/09/2022

    MAKING A HOME: Historic Preservation with Kate Wood

    How to deeply have a relationship with your home, your time and your place in history.  How honoring those who came before us helps us have gratitude for our contemporary lives.  Confronting the uncomfortable as well as the beauty in history.  The healing power of getting invested and interested in what we are doing creatively, whether we use our hands or not. About Kate: Kate Wood grew up criss-crossing the country with her educator parents and two brothers in her family’s Volkswagen Bus, visiting house museums, battlefields, Main Streets, and wildlife sanctuaries. Today she is an award-winning preservationist, real estate broker (with with Patricia A. Hinkein Realty in Germantown) and principal of the full-service historic rehabilitation firm, Worth Preserving. Recognized as the go-to expert on properties of exceptional character and integrity, Kate partners with clients to unlock the potential of old buildings using her unique skill set and extensive network of trusted resources. Preservation is Kate’s passion, rooted in over 15 years’ experience as the CEO of a major organization advocating for New York City landmarks including the iconic 2 Columbus Circle and Central Park West skyline. A sought-after public speaker and authoritative source for The New York Times and other media, she was recruited to teach preservation planning, advocacy and law at Columbia University and to co-author the book, Interior Landmarks: Treasures of New York, published in two editions by Monacelli Press. Today she is a regular presence on CIRCA Old Houses. www.worthpreserving.com Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

    1h1min
  4. 19/08/2022

    Ep 7 PERMISSION TO BE ALIVE: Acupuncture and The Needle with Margret Hallisey

    Work with your hands to move energy - no needles required. Artists as Healers - healing with needles and through creative relationships.   Listen to Gretchen get needled for her Mother Hunger by Margaret and relax deeply into the interview.   About Margaret:  Margaret Hallisey has been a licensed practitioner of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine since April 2004. Her initial practice began in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her second office in Columbia County, close to Hudson, NY, was opened in October, 2012.  She is board certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She earned her Masters in Acupuncture from the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture, when it was located in Hallandale, Florida. She is also a graduate of the Academy’s Herbal Studies program and can prescribe custom herbal formulas, as needed. Fresh out of college, Margaret worked as a dancer and choreographer in New York City, which enables her to bring a kinesthetic understanding of body mechanics to her practice. Early in her practice, she worked with many artists and performers, helping them sustain their physicality and creative inspiration. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1989.   Margaret has traveled across the United States and Europe to study with experienced practitioners of Chinese Medicine. She is certified in Clean Needle Technique by the Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. In addition to being trained in Classical Acupuncture, Margaret has received training in Auricular Acupuncture, Acupuncture Detoxification, Pain Treatment, and Zero Balancing. She specializes in Fertility, hormonal imbalances and more difficult issues that cannot be explained or addressed by allopathic medicine. www.margarethalliseyacupuncture.com Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com

    1h

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Psychotherapist-turned Flower Farmer Gretchen Winterkorn uses her tools in her own life and shares the results of her dirty work - growing as a human and working with her hands. In each episode, Gretchen explores how we can improve our living experiences as humans, create with our hands wherever we are and take more ownership over our own lives. Connecting to hunters, potters, weavers, artists, farmers, kindergarten teachers, acupuncturists and more in her native Hudson Valley, Gretchen is interested in reconnecting to our human legacy as the true builders of our own lives.

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