Meet our Gardeners in the Denver, Colorado Area
Zanna Ceesay
Head Gardener & Reinhabit Manager
Follow me on instagram at garden.bee.well
I cultivate and nourish – soil, plants, children, community. I teach homeowners to cycle their yard waste on site to regenerate their soil.
I’ve been a gardener for a solid 25 years and have always lived my life with an awareness of my impact—good and bad—on Mama Earth. In 2018 I began to learn the harmonious way of gardening, which has many names: no-till, lasagna bed, sheet mulch, Deep Bed Farming, Hugelkultur, and Regenerative Agriculture. I learned from David Braden and Living Systems Institute.
In 2019 I started working with David in launching what is now the Reinhabit Co-op, training gardeners in our methods and helping homeowners transform and maintain their little plot of land on this earth. I find myself in the happiest of spaces when transforming a grassy, weedy, barren landscape into what will ultimately be a lush garden teaming with life smaller than the eye can see, all the while teaching others how to do it too. I am a mother of five and care deeply about preserving and healing the earth for generations to come. The only way we can sustain our species is to take care of the planet we all live on. The issue of climate change comes from global warming; taking care of the soil can lead to global cooling and as it starts in one backyard, and then another and another, it grows exponentially and makes a BIG impact. Join us in this effort!
Emmy
Certified Gardener
(She, her) (and good boy Canis Familiaris)
I’m so grateful to get to work on the Reinhabit team. Welcome to our circle! I have always loved being in nature, by the creek or in the forest. Luckily, whether I lived in Japan, Barbados, or the suburbs of DC, there was always a patch of wilderness to soak up the good vibes.
At age 20 I began gardening, foraging, and learning primitive skills in Maryland. It connected me to the ancestral ways that feel lost in modernity. I joined a community garden in San Francisco in 2009 and explored ecovillages and permaculture education centers around the country.
I play music with my partner for our Kriya Yoga ashram in Lakewood and visit Dzogchen masters in Crestone to learn the nature of mind and navigate the Bardo! I help whoever I can with their estate planning, because I want to make sure that the wealth contained in the home and land transferred to those who will steward it with love. You can learn more about all this at Kriya House, where I put all my good ideas and put some of them into action!
Clayton Dewey
Apprentice Gardener
I’ve always found a lot of joy and peace in nature, but it was during the COVID pandemic that my relationship with the earth took on an extra level of intention. I hired All Beings Ecoscapes to help me convert my lawn into habitat for the pollinators, birds and other wildlife. I’m now an ambassador for the citizen science platform iNaturalist and an apprentice gardener with Reinhabit.
I’m also the goofy dad of three awesome kids (well young adults now!) and our dog Bo.