Soil Mates Leaders

Eric is known up and down the east coast for his vast knowledge of plants, mushrooms, and ecosystems. His foraging walks are highly sought after, fun, and even life-changing.

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Originally drawn to architecture by the works of Antoni Gaudi, Sigi is internationally known for her expertise in sustainable design and natural building. She has designed over three dozen straw-bale buildings in the mid-Atlantic region.

Melina loves awakening the best in the human spirit and cultivating the extraordinary creators that exist within each of us. She helps individuals, founders and entrepreneurs quantum leap to the next level in life, health, and business.

Guillermo’s work and life revolve around food. He is a trained whole animal butcher, cook, and market gardener, always drawn to the deep connection between land, animals, and the meals that bring people together. Guillermo provides hands-on experiences in butchery, seasonal cooking, food preservation, poultry raising, and the stories that connect us to the land and our food.

Elite Personal Trainer, Pilates Instructor, Pain-Free Specialist, and Nutritionist ready to help you have a functional body.

A pillar of the regenerative movement in Frederick County, MD, Ben is the director of The REED Center for Ecosystem Reintegration and a key architect of two pioneering food forests: Forested in Bowie, MD and Morning View Food Forest in Middletown, MD. For more than a decade, Ben has been consulting, teaching, and speaking to audiences of all ages on four continents about the past, present and future of humanity and agriculture.

Master teacher Jesse Cassady's The Grateful Yoga philosophy is rooted deeply in love, compassion, community, and perpetual growth. After surviving a severe mountain-biking crash as a teenager and suffering from debilitating wounds and a deep depression, Jesse found miraculous healing through zen buddhism and yoga. Compelled to share these powerful practices with others, Jesse has worked with beautiful students of all genders, races, ethnicities, and creeds for more than 25 years, including 7 years training up the yoga teams at Life Time Fitness and 14 years implementing his yoga school training students at studios across the Northeastern US...all while consistently leveling up through the guidance of esteemed teachers such as Jonny Kest, Swami Satchidananda, David Williams, amongst many others. Jesse teaches an all-inclusive, all-levels practice of mindfulness.

Kypriana “Lala” Daniels has been a foraging student for over 10 years and her daughter, Shivani has been foraging since birth. Kypriana was inspired to become an author when her family moved to the Appalachian Foothills of Frederick, MD. As they learned how to forage and wildcraft together, they made up stories to teach, inspire and remember all the wisdom and interconnectedness of the local ecology! Now the family is happy to share these educational stories with the world!