Founder of Rharian Fields, sixth-generation Texan, mom of two, permaculture designer, and former statewide program manager with a background in early childhood education and systems change.

For over a decade, I worked in public education—coaching school leaders, facilitating adult learning, and helping districts build more equitable, sustainable systems. But when I became a mom, my view of the future started to shift. I found myself asking bigger questions—about climate, care, and what it really means to build something that lasts.

I didn't grow up farming or with a green thumb. But when I started applying what I knew—about learning, about equity, about change—to the soil right outside my door, everything clicked. I saw how gardening could be more than a hobby. It could be a form of resistance, a place for healing, and a tool for transformation.

So I enrolled in a year-long Permaculture Design Certification course, and Rharian Fields was born—named after one of the first cultivated lands in mythology, a place where grief and hope coexisted, and renewal grew from the ground up.

Now, I help people transform their spaces—and sometimes their thinking—through full-scale garden design, planting design, and installation management. I'm PDC Certified through Urban Harvest/PINA and a Certified Landscape Professional through TNLA, and I'm now joined by a small studio team, extending that same close attention to a limited number of properties each season.