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Meg Graham

Meg Graham

Seasonal Gardener

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Owner/ Garden Designer May Apple Gardening and Ecological Design LLC

  • Education

    • Carnegie Mellon University

      2001 - 2005
      Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Painting, Sculpture, and Installation Art

      minor in French and Poetry

    • School House Yoga

      2013 - 2013
      200 hr. Yoga teacher training Yoga Teacher Training/Yoga Therapy

      I was given a basic training in Ashtanga, Hatha, Yin, Kundalini, and Vinyasa yoga. I am currently a certified yoga teacher through the Yoga Alliance. I am very busy with my native and organic landscaping business, Dirt Landscaping Collective LLC. Thus I mostly work as a yoga teacher in the winter. I run workshops and assist my mentor, Linda Meacci, on yoga retreats in Mexico. I am heavily influenced by the modalities of my mentor designing my classes with a focus on strength, posture, and… Show more I was given a basic training in Ashtanga, Hatha, Yin, Kundalini, and Vinyasa yoga. I am currently a certified yoga teacher through the Yoga Alliance. I am very busy with my native and organic landscaping business, Dirt Landscaping Collective LLC. Thus I mostly work as a yoga teacher in the winter. I run workshops and assist my mentor, Linda Meacci, on yoga retreats in Mexico. I am heavily influenced by the modalities of my mentor designing my classes with a focus on strength, posture, and flexibility. Show less

    • La Mariposa Spanish School

      2015 - 2015

      I lived in La Concha, La Concepcion, Nicaragua for one month at a homestay, which was arranged by the school. While I was there I went to Spanish class for half the day and I did a work trade in the community at a farm and a bakery for the other half of the day. I learned a lot of Spanish in a short amount of time. I'm still continuing my studies today.

  • Experience

    • Friends of the High Line

      Jun 2009 - Nov 2009
      Seasonal Gardener

      As a seasonal gardener at the High Line Park I was assigned a zone, which is an area of plantings, and I managed and monitored the garden design and plantings within my zone. I also created an herbaria of plants, co-designed a composting program, and composting education program.

    • Wavehill Garden

      Feb 2010 - Nov 2010
      Horticulture Intern

      I was a horticulture intern with my main duties being watering, weeding, mowing, propagating by cutting, seed, and graft, making potting soil mixes, sterilizing soil, creating trellises and plantings. Cleaning and sanitizing clay pots, pruning, shearing, cleaning lily pond, b&bing small shrubs and trees, learning 8 new plant species a week. Rotating through various full time gardener zones to learn about various types of plants, kinds of garden design, and generally learning how to manage and plan an outdoor space and a greenhouse space. Show less

    • Friends of the High Line

      Feb 2011 - Oct 2011
      Seasonal Gardener

      As a seasonal gardener at the High Line Park I was assigned a zone, which is an area of plantings, and I managed and monitored the garden design and plantings within my zone. I also created an herbaria of plants, co-designed a composting program, and composting education program.

    • East End Food Coperative

      May 2012 - Nov 2013
      Customer Service Representative

    • St. Edmund's Academy

      Nov 2012 - Apr 2014
      Extended Day Care Aid

      The extended day care program at SEA is a afterschool program that SEA offers. I care for the children for three hours a day until their folks can come pick them up. We have snack, homework, play, and art and crafts time. I function as a tudor, babysitter, playmate, disciplinarian (the least fun part), and art teacher.

    • Healcrest Urban Farm

      Mar 2013 - Mar 2015
      Farm Manager/ Partner

      I managed all the growing operations on HUF property. This entailed our day to day farm tasks, medicinal CSA planning, interns and employees, our IPM plan, and I assist with our educational programs.

    • Yoga for the People

      Dec 2013 - now
      Yoga Teacher

      I have just completed the yoga teacher training through School House Yoga ad I am a card carrying certified yoga teacher. Currently I am subbing for teachers around the city and I assist Linda Meacci on various workshops and retreats every year.

    • Penn's Corner Farm Alliance

      Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
      Delivery Driver

      I drove a 16' automatic box truck, packed, picked up from various local farms, and delivered perishable and non perishable products to various local restaurants, CSA drop off locations, and grocery stores.

    • Cutting Root Apothecary Farm

      Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
      Farm Co-Founder/ Owner/ Worker

      With my co-owner/farmer I found us a new farm to move to and throughout the first year we equally shared the roles of moving our farm from Pittsburgh, PA to Butler, PA, establishing a new farm, starting a flower and herb CSA, managing volunteers, writing our weekly news letters, among all the other many duties it takes to start and run a successful organic farm.

    • Dirt Landscaping Collective LLC.

      Apr 2015 - now
      Co-Owner/Garden Designer

    • May Apple LLC

      Jan 2021 - now
      Company Owner

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Landscape Horticulture Training Program

      Cornell University Cooperative Extension New York City

    • Organic Landcare Accredidation NOFA

      Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
      Feb 2016

    • Wavehill John Nally Apprenticeship

      Wave Hill
      Nov 2010