As a poet, retired-psychotherapist, gardener and artist, Una Kobrin’s poetry traverses the inner and outer landscape, where all is included in the realm of intimate relationship. Originally a Chicagoan, the last 40 years have been as a Californian, bi-located in Berkeley with her late husband, as well as living outside Nevada City, in the Motherlode of Northern California. The land was stripped of top soil during the generations of gold-mining that occurred. There she has been practicing sacred agriculture in conversation with the earth and the individuality of the land that surrounds her. This land has been loved and recast as a canvas for diverse cultivated gardens neighboring its wild periphery where presences often speak through her poetry. This 32 acre sanctuary, Heartstone is home to Una and a small community of residents and working friends. She also regularly visits her daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren on the east coast.