Meet Kristi, DUG’s Community Education Manager
Kristi’s love of growing food stemmed from helping her Finnish-Canadian grandmother garden on a small plot of land in Vancouver where she grew up. Her academic journey sprouted at the UBC Farm and led her to study biochar and carbon sequestration in soils at Florida’s A&M University.
Kristi’s passion for nurturing community in building sustainable food systems blossomed from her involvement with the Damayan Garden Project and Florida Farm to School Team in Tallahassee. With the mountain life calling, she settled in Colorado and found her community once again at Denver Urban Gardens in the compost training program. Her composting knowledge and expertise has been put into action as a Garden Leader at Greenway Community Garden, and she is officially a converted ‘worm nanny.’
In her free time you’ll find Kristi hiking in aspen groves with her wife JJ and pup Kona, biking through Central Park, practicing yoga at Root to Rise, or dancing with blissful abandon at a Red Rocks concert.
