Kennedy teaches the practice of reconnecting with nature through gardening and horticulture. With a background in urban gardening and hands-on experience gained from local landscaping and mentorships, Kennedy has expanded their expertise from Los Angeles to the Southeast. Their teaching style is intuitive and flexible, tailored to students' interests and learning styles, and emphasizes hands-on learning and personal growth. Inspired by the continuous journey of learning and the lessons found in challenges, Kennedy aims to help students integrate these grounding practices into their lives for wellness and empowerment.
I teach Urban Horticulture & Greenspace Design to help you learn how to grow your own food and maximize the space available to you. Learn more here!
Reconnecting with source, despite the limitations of modern living, has become one of the most transformative healing practices in my life and I hope to share that experience through teaching. Learning to grow our own food is one way we can take back power from the industrialized market and I hope this can become common knowledge as we build on the communal care structures which have been essential during the ongoing pandemic. Nurturing the relationship with people and planet can begin wherever you are planted.
My background as a Californian urban gardener is the foundation of my practice and greatest motivation to develop harmonious outdoor spaces. I began gardening out of curiosity in my grandmother’s backyard and later started taking on local landscaping jobs, eager to gain hands-on experience. Over the past several years I have dedicated myself to developing a greater understanding of horticulture in sunny Los Angeles and now I am expanding that to the climate and conditions of the Southeast. I am thankful for the mentorship of seasoned lifelong farmers and the Kiss the Ground Soil Advocacy program which inform my intuitive approach to gardening. My craft is continuously evolving as I work toward an advanced degree in landscape architecture and take on design projects big and small, which challenge me to find resourceful solutions to modern dilemmas.
I take an intuitive approach to teaching which considers the direction of students' expressed interests as ideal entry points to more complex naturalistic concepts. It is important to me that my method of teaching allows students to get their hands dirty and observe the gradual processes required to organically grow from seed to harvest. As opposed to rigidly traditional methods of teaching, my lesson plans remain malleable to be better attuned to the individual learning styles and goals of Louder students. In doing so, I hope to create a space for internal and external cultivation where students feel celebrated as their authentic selves. My goal as an instructor is to help you apply these grounding practices for wellness and liberation to your daily life.
I stay creatively inspired by considering myself a forever student in life & any craft I practice. Of course mastery is a nice end goal, but I’m continuously reminded of the important role “failure” plays in progress. I draw inspiration from the fact that there’s something new to be learned from every hardship, and as sure as there will always be challenges I will always be growing in my practice.
