About Me

I lost almost all of my work as a freelance theatre designer overnight due to the pandemic. After taking some time to have a break from the busy and stressful life I had found myself in, I wanted to explore making my own work. The Moon and the Furrow had been slowly forming at the back of my mind, borne from a love of nature and folklore and a desire to create sustainable and useful things that people will look after and will last a long time.

 

I love to send people cards, put beautiful things on my walls and put as little as possible into landfill. I started using washable handkerchiefs about ten years ago and although I love the old vintage ones in my collection, I want to only have organic cotton in my pocket and organic cotton touching my face! I am also a huge fan of tea towels. There is something so comforting about a beautiful tea towel, worn after years of use, used to wrap a picnic, a loaf of bread, gather some freshly picked produce and I suppose, do the washing up with.

After a particularly stressful time in 2015 (more about that here) a dream of living off-grid was formed. That combined with the One Planet scheme in Wales, which allows you to build a house if you can prove you can live off the land within 5 years, led to myself and my partner, Eric, buying an 11.5 acre woodland near Builth Wells in Wales in early 2021. After years of pursuing that dream I have ended up in the South Lakes of Cumbria where I plan to create a permaculture garden.

I have created The Moon and the Furrow to celebrate this beautiful planet and hope that in doing so, we cause as little damage as possible. I hope you enjoy where this will take us.

Kate x