President & Executive Creative Director

From a very young age, Amanda was captivated by the beauty of nature and felt a deep connection to the earth. While studying Environmental Policy at Warren Wilson College and receiving a Permaculture Design degree from Ecocentro Brazil, Amanda fell in love with gardening as a means of creating beauty, promoting food security, and as an experiential teaching tool to witness biology in action. After a 10 year career in urban agriculture, and helping to build a non profit that sustained 25 school garden programs on the West and South sides of Chicago, Amanda pursued a deeper creative outlet through floral design. Finding floristry and pursuing urban floriculture felt like a light bulb moment, where her love of design, celebrating nature, promoting sustainability, and bringing beauty into the world combined.