Rachel Kaplan

Rachel Kaplan is the lead author of Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living. She lives in Northern California where she works as a somatic psychotherapist, educator, permaculture designer and mother. For twenty years, she was a performing artist and director in San Francisco's active artist's community, and toured and taught her work throughout the United States and Europe. She has studied herbalism, Yoga, contemplative movement and mindfulness, trauma release, conflict resolution and mediation, as well as the wide range of heirloom homesteading skills. She has two Masters degrees, one in Inter-disciplinary Arts, and the other in Counseling Psychology; she holds a license as a Marriage and Family therapist in the State of California. She is a certified permaculture designer, and has trained extensively in somatics and the expressive arts. She authored and self-published two books of performance works, The Probable Site of the Garden of Eden, and Diaspora: Stories from the Cities, and enjoyed a special relationship with dance luminary Anna Halprin, as her writer and amanuensis. She lives with her partner and their daughter and their chickens and bees and rabbits on a homestead they call Tiny Town Farm.