Our Collective
We are a collective of people who through our respective practices, support and care for our urban ecologies.
Renee Keitt aims to cultivate, connect, build relationships, and share knowledge and resources while learning from and with the diverse community of life in the universe. You never know who is among us.
Collective Projects: Infinity Garden 2022
David Hecht lives to be of unexpected yet crucial service to family, friends, colleagues, strangers, and guests. His practice sits at the intersection of architecture, cybernetics, libraries, and organizing.
Collective Projects: Living Labyrinth 2019, Bibliophyte 2019, milkcrate system 2019, Participatory Public Art RFP 2019
Michelle Jackson designs and manages multi-stakeholder environmental projects. Her work is supported by over 20 years as a content producer for global agencies and brands, a decade of work as a community gardener in the Carrie McCracken TRUCE Community Garden in Harlem, and an MS in conflict resolution.
Collective Projects: Collaborative Design Manager
Jerone is an earthling cultivating practices of service at the intersection of creativity, community, and enterprise. He delights in designing, making, and/or growing stuff. On the Seeds to Soil team, he is most often found wearing his "Strategy & Design" hat, his "Tech Support" hat, or his "Amateur Herpetologist/Mycologist/Entomologist" hat.
Collective Projects: Tiny Plots 2020, Enchanted Gardens 2020
Skye Roper-Moses is a lover of people who helps them understand their conflict situations. She is a mediator, facilitator, conflict coach, and community weaver.
Collective Projects: Green Thumb Leadership Training 2020
S2S Alum, Michelle Calabro is an experience designer and storyteller who has been documenting Seeds to Soil projects since 2010. Her work deals with the themes of identity; communication; truth and trust; mediation; love and the barriers to love; and the balancing of cultures.
Collective Projects: Documentation of projects 2019
S2S Alum, Jeharrah Pearl is an antidisciplinary designer studying intersections of cultural artifacts & phenomena as they pertain to identity, expression, & self-actualization. She leverages a strategic and digital design background to develop systems and brands centered around equity and inclusion.
Collective Projects: Skylight Garden Lab 2020, Solidarity Zone Approach 2020
S2S Alum, Katie Calcaterra’s heart is in food, farming & community care. She specializes in garden planning from starting seeds to growing herbs and flowers in small spaces. Passionate about nurturing community, she provides support for new parents through her workshops, writing, cooking & doula work
Collective Projects: Seed Station 2019, Living Labyrinth 2019, Bibliophyte 2019
S2S Alum, Qiana Mickie is a New York City based food systems leader and speaker that uses food as a driver of enterprise, innovation, and equity. For over 10 years, she has worked on fostering a food based solidarity economy in the New York region that increases farm viability, healthy food access, and leadership opportunities for small- mid scale regional farmers, youth, Black, Brown, mixed income, and other communities of color.
Collective Projects: Solidarity Zone Approach 2020, Skylight Garden Lab 2020,
S2S Alum, Jess Turner came to herbalism and work with the land after a decade of student and labor movement organizing. Influenced by popular education, social ecology, food sovereignty, and Black liberation movements, she ferments, forages, grows herbs, makes plant medicine, and works to support marginalized communities in building autonomy through land-based healing practices.
Collective Projects: Herb Garden 2020, Seed Station 2020