Founder / Director

Bio coming soon!

Co-Founder / Board Member / Community Partner

Jess co-founded LWS alongside Anna, and is owner of Sweet Fern Native Plants, a plant nursery + design/consultation company specializing in plants native and landscape restoration in the south east. A Louisiana native, Jess grew up gardening by her grandmother's side and roaming the poplar/magnolia woods that her family calls home. Her connection to the natural world has been strong since her early years. 

 A naturalist and designer, she has 15 years of experience within the landscape industry. She is heavily influenced by her time at LSU in the horticulture department, as well as the fine arts department studying ceramics.

Jess is the contributing writer for the Country Roads Magazine column "Our Sustainable Garden".

Jess is a student and lover of the natural world... she finds the Mississippi river and surrounding community has shaped her and she holds a deep reverence and love for this landscape that has stitched the patchwork of her entire being.

In her free time she enjoys tending to her personal gardens, cooking with seasonal veggies, fishing, romping through the woods and canoeing through the swamps and marsh with her hogwild toddler son in tow

Community Director / Graphics

Like Anna, Erin is multi-passionate and has had the incredible opportunity to live & work in many places, doing many different things. She loves immersing herself in new endeavors and making beauty in the world to share with others.

Her love of plants and the natural world started as a child, and grew when she left college and found that it felt strange to not know how to grow things.

So she set off for New Mexico and worked on some farms in the hills of the Sangre de Christos mountains, and learned about plants.

She has worked in film, organic farming, non-profits, illustration & graphic design, fine art, sculpture & whatever else catches her eye.

Board Member / Photographer

Bio coming soon!