What The Sprout

I’m putting together the team behind a new way of doing food work in Baltimore and beyond.

Four lanes. Real expertise in each.
🌱 Growers who teach
🌱 Mind, mental health & community well-being
🌱 Cooperative business & community economics
🌱 Nutrition

Looking for organizations and independent practitioners with real work in their lane. Long-term partnerships, not freelance gigs. You bring the expertise. Your brand stays yours.
Step 1 — Tell me about your work: https://forms.gle/A5fEX6zcuWmpkgJp7
Step 2 — If we’re a fit, I’ll invite you to a partnership conversation.

If this is you, fill out the form. If you know someone who fits one of these lanes — tag them, send them this post, put us in touch. The team is forming now.

We started small — workshops teaching people to grow food at home. But a workshop ends when the session does. So we started building systems that keep producing long after the class is over.

Now we’re taking the next step. Morgan State’s Morgan CARES program has awarded seed funding to The Grow Collective — our community research pilot in Park Heights, led with Dr. Glenda Lindsey at Morgan State.

🏠 10 households
🥬 2 ways to grow in every home — microgreens inside, containers outside
⛪️ 1 hub: the Langston Hughes Center, where the vertical farms, beds, and 14 fruit trees are already in the ground

Residents shape the model, choose the crops, and own what grows. Because growing food together changes more than what’s on the plate — connection, mental health, safety, the environment, and a community that owns its own food system.

You don’t have to grow to belong. There’s a role here for everyone.

We launch this summer. Link in bio. 🌱

Food insecurity is rising. Time to rethink who’s at the center of the food system.
What The Sprout just partnered with to deliver 20 hands-on microgreen workshops at Y locations across Maryland. Participants taste fresh microgreens, learn the health benefits, discover how to grow them, and leave with a self-watering kit and seeds.
See you around town.
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Hey! Who’s that girl?? 👀

The Sustainability Open House is back 🌱

🗓️ Saturday, June 6, 2026
⏰ 12 PM – 4 PM
📍 Middle Branch Fitness & Wellness Center (201 Reedbird Ave)

Free and fun for all ages. Locally sourced food from Land of Kush, crafts for the kids, raffle prizes, and tons of local orgs working to make Baltimore greener and healthier.

Bring your family, your neighbors, your curiosity — see you there!

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Straight from the vertical farm at 🍅 🌶️ 🥬 🪱

Happy Arborist Day! 🌳

Today we’re celebrating the incredible work of altimore_treetrust and , who planted 14 fruit and nut trees at the Happy Arborist Day! 🌳

Today we’re celebrating the incredible work of and , who planted 14 fruit trees at the .

These two organizations are deeply committed to greening Baltimore, and it shows. Thank you for the care, the labor, and the long-term vision behind every tree in the ground.

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These two organizations are deeply committed to greening Baltimore, and it shows. Thank you for the care, the labor, and the long-term vision behind every tree in the ground.

Spent Earth Day with Baltimore City youth at one of the centers in South Baltimore. — we are in your backyard!

The children sowed microgreen seeds, watched them grow right in their center on the vertical shelf, and then got to eat what they grew in a delicious snack. We even turned regular barbecue sauce into something more nutrient-dense with radish microgreens — and they loved it.

This is our third contract with Baltimore City Recreation and Parks, and we’re grateful to be trusted vendors teaching children a skill they will never unlearn.

Happy Earth Day.

Things are coming together at — and I wanted to share what’s been growing.
🌱 Vertical farm
🍎 14 fruit trees
🥬 Grow beds
🌸 Pollinator gardens & beautification projects.
All of it right beside a community food pantry.

This is becoming a food hub. An educational hub. And we’re not done — the bigger vision is still unfolding.

Good things are growing. 🌻
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Spent March 6–7 at the SEEDS & CULTURE: Rural and Urban Agriculture United conference at UDC, hosted by the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance in partnership with 2020 Farmers Co-op. https://lnkd.in/eGt4xCKd

I presented Microgreens as Medicine: A Practical Urban Growing Workshop for Community Health & Resilience to a full room of engaged learners. I’m always glad to be in spaces where people are serious about growing food, sharing knowledge, and building healthier communities.

I left with new seeds, new connections, and fresh energy for the work ahead.

Great meeting so many good people doing this work.

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