the Ground Shots Project
creatively gathers ideas
about how we engage the land
through curious conversations,
& unique ethnobotanically informed education
The Ground Shots Project creates unique educational resources about land connection through an exploration of critical interdisciplinary analysis.
Our resources and projects are informed by field research and a curious inquiry into the intersections of history, botany, art, ecology, archaeology, philosophy and culture as they relate to our human-land relationship.
We’re here to offer something different: resources that are cohesive in breadth, acknowledge a bigger ecological web in which plants are a part and honor the complex cultural traditions of use that often span beyond perceived borders.
Through our podcast conversations and creative educational resources, we are offering an important lens into the world of creative land connection and the ways in which we can be critically informed in modern times.
Online classes:
This gives you access to educational content made for the Basic Ethnobotany of Juniper class taught by Kelly Moody of the Ground Shots Podcast.
Signing up for this portal gives you access to videos, audio, a quiz on Juniper and more.
Of Sedge & Salt Blog
Read about past adventures on the road, the art + ecology photo diary series, land musings and more.
The Ground Shots Podcast
this audio project explores our relationship to ecology through conversations and storytelling
Ethnobotanical Education
peruse the learning resources compiled through years of field study
about of sedge & salt and The Ground Shots Project
learn more about the intent of the project and who’s behind it
shop the small-batch apothecary
the apothecary and zine shop is currently closed. next shop update will be early November 2020!
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an occasional digest in your inbox covering anything from new podcast episodes we’ve released or we’ve listened to elsewhere that we think you’d love, latest educational offerings we’ve gathered together, books we love and why, raw writings, limited edition land-based zines we’ve put together and are offering for sale and more.
KELLY MOODY is the main curator behind the project.
She grew up in rural southern Virginia near the border of North Carolina in tobacco and muscadine country. Growing up here, she went to her grandma's house daily as a child, where fresh biscuits and iced tea were a regular necessity. Her other grandma was a determined plant lady who started a nursery business on the outskirts of their small rural town, which remained open for almost 50 years. Kelly grew up hiding with her sister in the tropical greenhouses, taking craft classes in the small nursery workshop, shelling green beans and canning tomatoes. These experiences of being on the family farm, working with plants and creating followed Kelly into her adulthood.
The past decade she has spent living simply in different landscapes studying plants, ecology and craft, writing about the land, growing food and herbs, or honoring her wanderlust by living on the road.
Kelly’s interest in storytelling and cross-cultural dialogue comes from both an upbringing in the small-town rural south and the inspiration of meeting people while living on the road.
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All photography on this website is by Kelly Moody unless otherwise noted (some film and some digital!). All writing is by Kelly Moody unless otherwise noted. All content is copyrighted. Use only with permission.