My Story

Where It Started

After years in visual design, I was drawn to something rooted in health, justice, and sustainability. Without a backyard, I started growing microgreens at home — and discovered that growing food changes how you think about access, health, and what communities can build for themselves.

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Where It Went

Teaching people to grow microgreens led to harder questions — not just how do people grow food, but why don't communities have the infrastructure to do it? That question changed everything. I moved from workshops and kits to designing whole systems: growing infrastructure, production models, and the resident-led capacity communities need to own their own food future. And while we build, we're still showing up — bringing hands-on agriculture into classrooms, workplaces, clinics, and community spaces.

Where It Is Now

What The Sprout is building and testing a community agriculture model at our first anchor site — the Langston Hughes Community, Business & Resource Center in Park Heights, Baltimore. Fruit trees in the ground. Grow beds going in. A vertical farm producing food inside the center. Pollinator gardens taking shape. This is Site One — the proof point. What we learn here shapes everything that comes next.

The Bigger Vision

A Baltimore where anchor sites across the city each coordinate networks of home growers who collectively produce, process, and sell food together. Where communities own their food systems — not as a program someone gave them, but as infrastructure they built themselves.