Teacher and Guide of Historical Wild Foods & Foraging & Overcoming Challenges.

When Melanie is out in nature, whether it is the wilds of the Adirondack Mountains or the flat lands of her native country, England, she looks at her surroundings and sees their abundance.

 Melanie strongly believes that wild nutrition  should be promoted to both young and old as a real source of mainstream healthy food .

 Her passion leads her to spend as much time teaching about wild all that she knows about foraging, cooking and identifying wild foods in person at Outdoor Symposiums, Adventure Summits, at Luxury Hotels and in schools and Universities.

Founded in 2021, Thunderhawk Living History School seeks to give observers and participants a sense of stepping back in time in the New York, Vermont and New Hampshire area. It is an interactive Living History program using researched, documented and historically correct presentation of how life was  for people in the 1700's on the North Eastern Coast of the New World from the perspective of both the Native American Indians, the fur traders, the Highlanders, British settlers and Rogers Rangers, who were the origin of what the Special Forces are today. 

" The Thunderhawk Guides personas are drawn from their own heritages "

Melanie and the other Thunderhawk Guides present their lessons in both, visual narrative and tactile ways so that each observer will find something that enables them to walk away with a positive experience.  Different lives of that time, everyday objects, seasonal foraging and hunting plus many other objects that would be found or used as trade during that time are used and taught about during each lesson. Melanie feels this really helps give everyone a better connection and easier way of understanding to the living history experience.