About Makena Wild

Where food, healing, and creative strategy meet.

I'm Makena — a creative strategist, food artist, and intuitive chef passionate about turning nourishment into a lifestyle, and storytelling into a business. I’ve spent the last decade weaving together work in food, design, wellness, and sustainability — across kitchens, communities, and cultures around the world.

Makena Wild is more than a brand —It’s where my love for handmade meals, healing rituals, wild living, and soulful storytelling come to life through:

• 🥣 Seasonal meal plans rooted in real food

• 📖 Custom recipe eBooks and wellness content

• 👩‍🍳 Private + virtual chef services

• 📸 Food photography and content creation

• 🔮 Brand & strategy consulting for food and wellness entrepreneurs

Whether I’m cooking for postpartum mamas, families, or busy professionals, designing digital cookbooks, or helping mission-led creatives bring their brand to life — my work always comes back to one thing: nourishment as a way of living.

I believe in food that’s beautiful but simple. Work that’s purposeful and aligned. And a business that honors both creativity and authenticity. Based on intuition, not imitation.

This is slow business. Wild creativity. Rooted nourishment. I built this website and brand during the trenches of motherhood, on a shoestring budget- between nap times and 24/7 parenting… solo. It hasnt been easy and has been a wILD ride, but I would ‘

ESTABLISHED MARCH 2025.