Miki Palchick is a ceramic artist, gardener, and food educator based in Philadelphia, with roots in the Midwest.  She has been making pottery since childhood, and this skill allows her to create vessels for preparing and serving food to the people she loves. By growing food and working in clay, Miki strengthens her connection to the earth and celebrates its gifts at a time when our relationship to land is constantly challenged. She believes that producing food and making the objects we use in our daily lives are powerful strategies for building healthy sovereign communities. For Miki, both gardening and ceramics are meditative practices that remind her to slow down, allow her to reintegrate creation into consumption, and inspire her to craft beautiful everyday objects for environments she hopes can become spaces for collective healing.