KENDRA HAZEL

2023 GARDEN MANAGER

Kendra Hazel serves as The Nicholson Project’s 2023 Garden Manager where she oversees our large, organic, neighborhood garden. Envisioned as a central point of engagement with our community, our garden offers a unique opportunity for programming at The Nicholson Project around the intersection of the arts, farming, and the natural world. 

Kendra Hazel is a herb enthusiast, urban garden educator, and a plant based chef. It is her passion to educate, inspire, and show people how to live a more healthy life with a holistic approach. She began her plant based journey in 2015 as she studied health science at Florida A&M University. It was her vision to teach what she learned in her undergraduate studies and apply them to her real life and to continue this path with Green Things Work as she graduated in 2016 and returned to her hometown of Washington, DC.

As a DC native, she began to teach herself how to grow her favorite seasonal crops in her neighborhood community garden in Ward 5. Around this time, Hazel also started her role with the local organization City Blossoms, where she became a garden educator. It was her role to teach and educate local youth and adults in DC about urban agriculture. All of these steps have helped Kendra become the woman she is now and she aims to continue out this vision on a deeper level in her own special way. To this day, Green Things Work serves the community with education and hands on programming, produces wellness products, and healthy plant based food experiences.