About
This website is meant to serve as a collection of some of my coursework, experiences, blog posts, and other things about me that I think are relevant to my professional life, or that I think friends, family, and other visitors to the site will enjoy. As I continue building the website, it will have future blog posts, contact information, coursework I feel has most influenced me the most, samples of my work, and more. I hope it is informative and easy to use, paints a clearer picture of me than a resume could on its own, and is entertaining as well. During my Howdy! Farm internship (mentioned below), we were required to write ten blog posts. I had entirely too much fun writing them, and I hope you have entirely too much fun reading them. That was actually part of the reason I built this website originally. In the near future, I will probably begin writing more posts, although they will not be about the Howdy! Farm. Thank you for taking the time to visit.
I graduated this May from Texas A&M University with a bachelor of science in horticulture. Shortly after graduating, I started my internship at the National Herb Garden in the United States National Arboretum. I have enjoyed my time at the Arboretum so far and I am excited to see how much I can learn and contribute during my time here.
I interned 6 hours per week during the Spring 2017 semester at Texas A&M Howdy! Farm, where I assisted with general farm maintenance, worked with and taught volunteers, and successfully grew heirloom tomatoes in a small, affordable organic hydroponic system that I designed and built (with the help a few others, of course). These experiences, as well as my history of employment at restaurants during college, have shaped me into a person that is fascinated and driven by learning more about our food sources and helping to spread this knowledge to the public.
I hope that through my work, I can help educate both the public and myself in order to help build a society of people who are more aware and appreciative of the plant life around them and of the sources of their food. In the future, I hope to work with restaurants, chefs, and the average person to promote greater understanding of the sources of their ingredients in order to both improve the quality of food and to empower the end user to make better choices on ingredient selection, handling of these ingredients, and other factors that play a role in the ultimate quality of food.
I believe my personal experiences with gardens, my experiences at the TAMU Howdy! Farm, my work at the U.S. National Arboretum, restaurant work, and my undergraduate career in horticulture have prepared me to be of great service.
I graduated this May from Texas A&M University with a bachelor of science in horticulture. Shortly after graduating, I started my internship at the National Herb Garden in the United States National Arboretum. I have enjoyed my time at the Arboretum so far and I am excited to see how much I can learn and contribute during my time here.
I interned 6 hours per week during the Spring 2017 semester at Texas A&M Howdy! Farm, where I assisted with general farm maintenance, worked with and taught volunteers, and successfully grew heirloom tomatoes in a small, affordable organic hydroponic system that I designed and built (with the help a few others, of course). These experiences, as well as my history of employment at restaurants during college, have shaped me into a person that is fascinated and driven by learning more about our food sources and helping to spread this knowledge to the public.
I hope that through my work, I can help educate both the public and myself in order to help build a society of people who are more aware and appreciative of the plant life around them and of the sources of their food. In the future, I hope to work with restaurants, chefs, and the average person to promote greater understanding of the sources of their ingredients in order to both improve the quality of food and to empower the end user to make better choices on ingredient selection, handling of these ingredients, and other factors that play a role in the ultimate quality of food.
I believe my personal experiences with gardens, my experiences at the TAMU Howdy! Farm, my work at the U.S. National Arboretum, restaurant work, and my undergraduate career in horticulture have prepared me to be of great service.