I am the founder of Star Apple Farm and Nursery, a Philadelphia-based operation stewarding Caribbean and Southeast Asian heritage crops. My mission is to make culturally relevant crops more accessible to Black and brown communities, increasing food sovereignty through grassroots education and collaboration. With Star Apple Farm and Nursery, I offer plant starts and vegetables through local farmers markets, pop-ups, and wholesale accounts. I also hold educational programming on topics such as seedkeeping, gardening, and writing as a way to connect with ancestral crops.

As a grower with the Truelove Seeds Company, I preserve and save seed from Caribbean and Southeast Asian crops. I work with tropical plants such as siling labuyo and cerassee, helping make their seeds available to diasporic communities.

I’m always excited to talk about cooperative land ownership, community land trusts, ancestral seed preservation and rematriation, and Black farmer organizing. If you’d like to talk and scheme about these things, feel free to email me.