Unfortunately, Birdie doesn't know anyone from growing up 'round these parts, but she's happy to be friendly! They've at least got medicine in common, even if hers is herbal and magical in nature. :D
For Vale, she might have tried one of his self-defense classes but I think given her curse it probably wouldn't have gone super well for her? Like she definitely ended up bruised a lot, maybe sprained something. Happy for her to be friendly with him, though - they've got that kind of hardscrabble life going on in both their backgrounds. Birdie wasn't a farmer per se but she and her family grew as much food as they could and hunted for meat, and Birdie grows a lot of her own stuff now also.