Kendra Conway Bio 

Kendra is a student at San Diego City College in the process of competing an Associates degree in Agriculture-Sustainable Urban Agriculture and in Business- Small Business Management -Entrepreneur. She has had a love for growing plants ever since childhood and has fond memories of assisting parents and grandparents in the family garden in Virginia, and her grandparents’ many gardens as well. The feeling of love and nourishment that centered around the plants and gardening is one that was woven through her childhood and into her free time as an adult. Through the planting of summer cucumber and tomatoes, or picking peaches and making cobbler, shelling the “butter beans”, eating figs off the tree, planting sunflowers and watching them grow taller than her grandfather, or rinsing strawberries for homemade ice cream, she discovered gardening was not just a fun family activity, but the genesis for the love of nature and Mother Earth that permeates her daily life. After a deep dive in family history on an ancestry website one year, Kendra discovered that she descends from a long line of family farmers who had farmed land throughout Virginia and North Carolina, dating back to the earliest settlers. The desire to pursue a path in agriculture for the second half of her life became a priority, and she enrolled in the Agriculture and Business programs at City College. She hopes to pass the love for nature and appreciation for the Earth on to others.