Follow the Flowers is an independent publication launched in December 2025 by Nance Klehm. If you subscribe today, you'll get full access to the website as well as email newsletters about new content when it's available. Your subscription makes this site possible, and allows Follow the Flowers to continue to exist. Thank you!
Who am I?
Nance has been an ecological systems designer, landscaper, and horticulturist for thirty-five years. She stewards fifty acres of land in the Driftless Region of northwest Illinois, where she cultivates and forages medicinal and edible plants and fungi, keeps bees and a fruit orchard, raises ducks and quail, and grows for indigenous seed banks. A consultant, speaker, and teacher, she is internationally respected for her work on land politics and soil health.
Her publications include Land.Place.Belonging., The Soil Keepers: Interviews with Practitioners on the Soil Beneath our Feet, and Ground Truthing Volume 1: Hidden Geographies: Chicago, and she has produced art works for exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Ballroom Marfa, and the Sky High Farm Biennial.
Her work can found be at:
- Spontaneous Vegetation
- Social Ecologies
- Eventbrite
- LinkedIn
- Instagram
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