In 2018, I founded the W.G. Pearson Teaching & Learning Garden at Student U & the W.G. Pearson Center in Durham, NC. Over the following three years, I coordinated work with 100+ volunteers and 100+ students to cultivate, harvest from, and cook with produce from the garden. We partnered with Durham’s Innovative Nutrition Education Program (DINE) to provide weekly cooking class for Durham Public Schools students using vegetables grown by in the garden. We also held 7+ volunteer workdays for community members to care for and connect with the garden.