Maquel tends 5 acres of farm land beside the Kaw river. The region of this land was tended by the indigenous people of the Osage, the Kaw & the Shawnee. Kel considers herself the keeper of 5 acres and the eye for a thousand. She lives amongst the agricultural wastelands of monoculture, secured by a handful of oaks, 150 mulberry trees, and a hedge of young oak, maple and hedgeapple, anchored by 6 maturing cottonwoods. The land provides elderberry, black berry, black raspberry, strawberries, mullein, milkweed, goldenrod and garlic aplenty, amongst many other native and invasive flora & fauna. Kel keeps four goats, a brood of hens, baba yaga rooster mama and bunnies with the help of her guard dog Keeper and herding, fierce-feminine Lila dog. The land is visited by an abundance of migratory birds by air, coyotes slip in through the gate, turtle shells line the river beds, possums and pack rats rustle.. Her house is often a rotating place of other, helping to cocreate family and tending. With company, Kel builds hugelkultur mounds to rehabilitate the depleted soil. She is actively interested in life cycles.