April 2009

Welcome to By Earth, Root and Flower. I am Lisa and was born and raised in the Mohawk Valley in central New York State among the Adirondack foothills. The immigrants who first arrived in this region came from many different parts of Europe. My paternal grandparents were from Italy and immigrated to the small village of Dolgeville in the 1920’s to work in the industrial mills that were built along the West Canada Creek. My maternal grandparents were Irish and settled the high hills and meadows becoming mostly subsistence farmers grateful to be able to own their own land. Living in this area now and in the time before the first colonial settlements, were the Mohawk and Oneida tribes of the Iroquois Indians. I hold in my heart the deepest respect for these First Peoples whose teachings have impacted my life deeply.