I am the Vice-President of Wild Ones, Smoky Mountains chapter for 2023-2024.

I am a Realtor and an avid vegetable gardener, and a recent convert to restoration of the built landscape to promote the local ecosystem.

To that end, I have started a full restoration of my property, with the intention to have my front yard contain only plants native to Ecoregion 67f (my local Ecoregion) and to also be a Homegrown National Park, a Tennessee Smart Yard, a National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Habitat, and a Xerces Society Pollinator Pledge yard.

I have started The Ecoregion 67f Project to collect information about truly local native plants and hope I can use iNaturalist to achieve this goal.