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For The Love of Microgreens. We're sowing, growing, and enjoying microgreens for mental, physical, and community health!

I'm Quandra Gray
After years in visual design, I was drawn to a new type of design—one rooted in health and sustainability. With no backyard for gardening, I discovered microgreens and transformed my home into a thriving vertical garden. Now, I use my journey to help others grow their own food. I’ll teach you how to cultivate microgreens and make a positive impact on your community—all from the comfort of your home.

09/15/2026

Three hats, one symposium 🌱

This week I show up for the CEEJH INC Environmental Justice Symposium three ways:

🎤 Sept 19 Bowie State University — presenting my work as a Baltimore business owner and 2026 Climate Justice Fellow, building sustainable food systems with the communities they feed

🗣️ Sept 16 (virtual) — joining the Baltimore Food Sovereignty and Justice panel to talk about communities controlling their own food

🎙️ Sept 19 — moderating “Food Apartheid, Food Justice, Food Sovereignty and Community Resiliency” with leaders I deeply respect

CEEJH built something rare: a fully funded fellowship where passion is the only prerequisite. It’s deepening the work I do every day through What The Sprout, and building leaders in the communities carrying the heaviest environmental burdens.

We grow food, and we grow the people who grow it. Come through. 🌱

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08/04/2026

Eight hours over four weeks with K through 5th graders at Holistic Life Foundation

Through play, they learned where food comes from, how greens grow in a small space, cared for microgreens from seed to harvest, and tasted what they grew.
Growing things pairs naturally with their wellness mission. At What The Sprout, we believe food is where wellness starts — and kids should get to touch it, grow it, and taste it themselves.
We’ll bring the seeds. Where should we come next?
Thanks for having us.

07/31/2026

Partner Highlight

Megan Carr, Forest Ecologist with Baltimore City Forestry, spent a session with the youth cohort on careers in urban forest management.

She walked them through what a forest ecologist actually does — and the range of careers that exist in caring for a city’s trees. Jobs most of them never knew existed, right here in Baltimore.

Thank you, Megan, for showing our young growers another path.

The Grow Collective Youth Cohort is a project of What The Sprout LLC, in partnership with the Langston Hughes Community, Business and Resource Center and YouthWorks Baltimore.

07/27/2026

Partner Highlight

Ruth Tyson, Home Horticulture Educator and Master Gardener Coordinator with University of Maryland Extension, spent a session with the youth cohort on environmental and food justice in Baltimore City.

She walked them through the 17 Principles of Environmental Justice — and the principles read like a map of everything the cohort has been doing all summer. Growing food where they live. Feeding their own neighborhood. Turning what they grow into something the community owns.

This is what What The Sprout is built on. The youth aren’t learning about environmental justice. They’re doing it.

Thank you, Ruth, for naming the work our young growers are already living.

The Grow Collective Youth Cohort is a project of What The Sprout LLC, in partnership with the Langston Hughes Community, Business and Resource Center and YouthWorks Baltimore.

YouthWorks

07/20/2026

own Chloe Sandifer-Stech, Sustainability Programs Coordinator, spent the afternoon with our Grow Collective Youth Cohort.

Our young growers got a look at a career most of them didn’t know existed. Sustainability work at a zoo covers composting at scale, waste systems, animal habitats, and the daily decisions that keep an institution green. They asked Chloe how she got there, what she studied, and what a workday actually looks like.

The takeaway our cohort walked away with: sustainability is a career path, not just a topic. There are jobs where you get paid to care about the planet, and there are people in Baltimore doing them right now.

Thank you, Chloe, for showing our youth what’s possible.

07/17/2026

Photo dump from the week.
Sowing trays at the Grow Collective.

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