Meet The Team

Proudest Gardening Moment: "I took Concord Grape Vine cuttings from a fellow crop swapper, and brought them to my garden and inserted into the ground. They grew 20 feet in 1 year and fruited!"

Proudest Gardening Moment: "Having 3 tall sunflowers mysteriously grow on my rooftop terrace. I didn't plant them. Thanks birds!"

Proudest Gardening Moment: "My first pandemic summer my tomato plants did so well, they were taller than my neighbor's home. I had such an abundance towards the end of the season that I was able to make the best tomato soup I had ever had. Hoping they do as well this year!"

Proudest Gardening Moment: "Empowering our community to build spaces for nutrient rich foods."

Proudest Gardening Moment: “Breaking my cement backyard and transforming the space into a garden with over 100 different varieties of plants.” 

Proudest Gardening Moment: "Working in the extreme Flagstaff, AZ temperatures, building a makeshift hoophouse to keep my veggies from getting frostbitten in the beginning of spring when the temperatures at night were still frigid. That summer, I harvested my first full-sized squashes, and they were the most delicious I've had."

Proudest Gardening Moment: "Taking plant clippings from my home, and spreading them throughout my office building. In recent times it would be this Dracaena plant I named Roots in the picture; it was nearly dead a year ago when I purchased it at a discounted price. She's quite happy and growing these days."

Proudest Gardening Moment: "when I managed to revive some roses that were dying in my front yard! "

Proudest Gardening Moment: "I've managed to keep my guiana chestnut alive for over 12 years, 4 transplants, and one particularly long summer where it survived as an honorary roadie in the back of a tour van."

Proudest Gardening Moment: "Helping to build Asante Microfarm!"

Proudest Gardening Moment: “I broke ground with gardening hoe and shovel at Asante microfarm.” 

Proudest Gardening Moment: "When I realized more of life’s truisms in my first season of successfully growing my Taxi, Roma, and Indigo tomatoes, than I did in 3 years of living life.  "

Proudest Gardening Moment: "When I mastered composting.  I compost using the Bokashi method to deep bury fermented food scraps and in-ground vermiculture to provide slow-release soil amendment to my garden beds. I also have two small traditional worm bins for creating food-scrap compost.  I love my worms! "

Proudest Gardening Moment: "Installing the labyrinth garden at St Mark UMC with the CSLA team"

Proudest Gardening Moment: "Putting my hands in the soil."

Proudest Gardening Moment: " Planting seedlings in newly stuffed Soil Sox at Asante Microfarm! "

Proudest Gardening Moment: " Turning a mustard seed of a Dream (of cultivating my front lawn) into Asante MicroFarm. Proverbs 28:19 "

Proudest Gardening Moment: " Finding potatoes growing in my compost pile."