About me

Freelance writer, poet and seed keeper. Creator of the Scrap Kitchen Newsletter/Podcast, focusing on starting a farm from scratch and the search for land in the UK (while managing a farm in Michigan)... Always up to collaborate.

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• Excited to re-start my Scrap Kitchen Newsletter/podcast. Would love to hear what people think and questions they have about farming.

Projects

• FILLER ZINE 08: The Kitchen- Preservation (Essay)FILLER is a self-published food magazine by Holly Eliza Temple, exploring personal experiences and narratives of our relationship with food through each issue’s theme. Issue 08, The Kitchen, invites responses examining the spaces in which we cook and eat: the materiality and meaning of what we consider a ‘kitchen’ and how we behave in these spaces, exploring our own desires, needs, emotions, and bodies — as well as the places we inhabit, the people around us, and the rules we, or others, impose
• BOSHEMIA MAG Issue 07 // FUNWhen the world is burning, what else is there to do but indulge in a little silliness? Boshemia Magazine presents FUN, 100 pages of joy, colour, and musings on what it means to engage with fun. It’s nostalgic, it’s reflective, it’s whimsical, and, most importantly, it’s fun. A poem on the coming together of community and seeking reconnection.
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  Be a Weed- Political Pamphlet for FEM Zine"A rumination on how community gardening can be an anti-capitalist blueprint" Written for Fem Zine as part of three printed political pamphlets featuring essays on three special topics.
• Moonday Mag: Untouchable IssueIssue #2 is stepping things up with a little more strangeness, a little more rawness, and teetering just on the edge of the dark side. So what exactly does it mean to be untouchable? It means coming face to face with our deepest desires, our deepest fears, ascending to a plane we never thought could exist.
• Queer/Trans Magic Magazine: LuxuriaA creative collaboration of Queer/Trans Artists around the theme of Luxuria.
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  Retrograde Mag- Poems and a polemicThe theme of FUTURE inspired me to write two poems and some short prose on the future we are heading toward at the moment. They aim to be hopeful but not unrealistic.

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Projects credited in

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  The Catmaste Chronicles PodcastA new exciting podcast about well-being and cats. We feature Business owners, Entrepreneurs, Creatives, Actors, Musicians and beyond..

Work history

WriterXandua Tarot
Aug 2022Richmond, United StatesPart Time
A weekly Tarot Newsletter, encompassing the spiritual and political. Each newsletter contains predictions about the coming week, journaling prompts and ideas for rituals and practices. Xandua Tarot is perfect for someone early on in their Tarot journey along with seasoned pros. It weaves together through explanations, alternatives and a heavy dose of scepticism. 🎴 Sign Up today (https://xanduatarot.substack.com)
WriterScrap Kitchen- Newsletter
Feb 2021 - Nov 2021London, United KingdomFreelance
Creator of the Scrap Kitchen Newsletter, promoting seed-saving, reducing food waste and experimental gardening. xandua.substack.com

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Skills

• Writing Poetry
• Writing
• Digital Marketing
• Sales Marketing
• Science Communication
• Poetry
• Podcasting
• Blog Content
• Gardening

Education

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Biochemistry with Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BSc)University of Edinburgh
Aug 2013 - May 2017Edinburgh, United Kingdom