Environmental Educators
Kyla Zaro-Moore (2005- )
Kyla joined the Garden staff on December 1, 2005. Bringing a strong knowledge of botany and biology with a particular understanding of urban ecology, Kyla, a native Atlantan, earned her bachelor’s degree in biology at Macalester College (MN) in 1999. She completed a master’s degree in Agriculture, with a concentration in sustainable agriculture, from the University of Minnesota in 2002. Kyla had six years of practice in small-scale sustainable agriculture with an emphasis on urban gardening and community building through youth-led gardens, and she brings broad experience working with community partners such as local businesses, non-profit organizations, and community farms. She was assistant farm and market manager at Minneapolis’s Youth Farm and Market Project, where she worked with youth from diverse ethnic and class backgrounds and their parents, including refugee populations, to teach organic gardening skills, conservation, nutrition, and urban ecology. She also ran a Community-Supported Agriculture project in that city. Kyla also spent several months working as an organic farmer in Wales, where she participated in all facets of a nearly self-sufficient intentional community, including gardening, milking, cheese making, food preparation, and volunteer coordination.
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