Personal Bio
Kristen has designed and managed five organic community and school gardens throughout the Phoenix area, including the University of Arizona sponsored Miracle Garden, an inner-city garden for youth which received media attention, national recognition, and awards for youth enrichment. Kristen was an instructor of edible gardening at The Desert Botanical Gardens. She has been a guest speaker at ASU, local sustainability conferences, and a garden instructor for both youth and adults all over the valley in both English and Spanish. Her extensive horticultural experience includes Landscape Supervisor, Nursery Production Manager of a 30-acre desert nursery, and Plant Biologist for Mount Rainier National Park. For over 16 years she had her own home gardening and landscape design business here in the Sonoran Desert. She was a certified U of A Maricopa County Master Gardener in 1997, and has received many other landscape trainings and certifications since. Today, Kristen works as an independent horticultural consultant and yoga instructor. Growing food in a sustainable way has led her to Aquaponics, raising food and fish in a symbiotic system. Her home yard, the Stone Soup Garden, was designed to teach and inspire sustainable garden living. She has hosted over 600 awe-inspired visitors, and she would love to help you create your own garden paradise!
