HEY, I’M CAROLINE
My life’s work is to promote abundance.
I believe all people are entitled to an abundance of pleasure and nourishment, whether through art, music, food, the land, or the body. As a flower farmer, community gardener, radio specialist, and DJ, I center my work around these values.
After nearly a decade in the music industry, I jumped into full-time farm work, but it’s connected, I swear.
Around 2019, I paused my radio promotion career to focus on more personal connections within NYC — specifically the community-centered food, artists, and radio I love. It was time to move from a global network of industry-folk to a localized circle.
What resulted was community magic.
My DJ work kicked up and I was playing at local venues and radio stations around New York. I was “daylighting” at the farmer’s market for Walnut Hill and Hudson Valley Farms and gardening with a vengeance – focusing on the native flora that benefit NYC’s rich wildlife.
During this time my longtime hobby became a habit. I put myself through a self-taught gardening intensive, absorbing knowledge from blogs, books, and most of all practice. I grew hundreds of rare plants from seed under grow lights in my closet, tended to them lovingly for months, and then gave the surplus to friends, neighbors, and community gardens.
When the pandemic struck and live music went on pause, I increased my farmer’s market work and became more interested in the ways we access food while sustaining local economies.
I asked my colleagues at Walnut Hill if I could work with them in the field in Vermont. A year later, I was living four hours north of NYC, further cultivating my relationship with the land and my sustainable-agriculture community. Now I’m heading back for the 2022 growing season as their flower field manager.
When I’m not harvesting flowers, you can find me at the local farmer’s market, collaborating with my neighbors on our community garden, and getting ready to start my own farm.
When I think of community, I think of my local community, my plant community, food justice community, artistic community, and the connections I share with my ancestors when I occupy these spaces. Working with the land has helped me access that ancestral connection, which informs the totality of my work.
The thing about abundance, is it never seems to cease.
The earth and our art will never stop needing our care and offering its fruits. People will never stop needing beauty and nourishment. And I will never stop seeking connections that foster that relationship.
If you want to connect, I’d love to hear from you. Whether you’ve got a garbage backyard that needs landscaping, an album that needs promotion, or a bar that needs music, I look forward to creating something together.