Joel and Leah of High Garden in Nashville, TN focus their community education on sharing with others what has been shared with them regarding herbalism, natural reconnection, forest gardening, traditional skills, and more.  They believe that by learning more about nature and its wonders, we easily begin to connect with something much larger and feel incredibly more whole. They are able to teach this subject matter because they have studied for so many years and live by it daily.  Leah has been working diligently on herbal studies for 15 years and Joel has been well versed in the world of tea as well as traditional skills for almost a decade.  They bring in other elders and teachers on subject matters and enjoy in what the community can offer one another.

Christie Tarleton began her farming endeavors in organic and biodynamic food production and moved to hemp with the passing of the farm bill in 2014. Since then, her biggest goal has been to integrate hemp into existing small family farm structures and to tell the story of how hemp can help existing small farm infrastructure. Christie and her husband Will now run the farm together and have been part of the Tennessee Hemp Pilot Program since it began. Through that, they helped build Hemp Policy by lobbying for hemp and met with TN lawmakers to help craft and better the laws on hemp in their state. Christie and Amanda Matsui together formed YuYo Botanics. Yuyo was founded in 2018 with a mission to get organic, Tennessee-grown hemp to the public and connecting people to hemp education.  

Through her career Hannah has been a photojournalist, professional cake decorator, food blogger, recipe developer, director of production at a design firm, food photographer, restaurant group branding specialist, marketing department content creator, and pop-up dinner series host/cook. Her work has been featured in Food & Wine, Food 52, Edible Nashville, The Tennessean, Nashville Lifestyles, Native Magazine, and The Huffington Post. She has styled a handful of cookbooks. These days she only claim the titles food stylist, writer, podcast host, professional people feeder. Above all else she is an evangelist for being a cheap cook. Her podcast is a conversation between Hannah and the people struggling to cook what they have on hand without a recipe.