Steven began his education through an internship at Boggy Creek Farm in 2008, the oldest urban organic farm
in the country. Training under Larry Butler and Carol Ann Sayle, Steven went on to become the Central Texas
Director for Texas Organic Farming and Gardening Association and to start Genesis Gardens, a farming and
gardening program at the Austin-based non-profit, Mobile Loaves & Fishes. During his six years running
Genesis Gardens, Steven led thousands of volunteers and a core team of homeless and formerly homeless
farmers to develop a 4-acre organic farm and animal husbandry program at the Community First! Village in
East Austin.
Steven sits on the steering committee for the Sustainable Agriculture program at the Elgin campus of the Austin
Community College. He was part of the successful effort lobbying on behalf of the Cottage Food Bill with
Judith McGeary of the Food and Ranch Freedom Alliance. He received his Permaculture Design Certificate
with Geoff Lawton in 2014 and has been a practitioner of permaculture principles in his approach ever since.
He is a teacher and farmer, passionate about the unique power of food to bring communities together.
