Kirsten Kesicki started Yard Crop in 2020 with the goal of helping her community experience the joy of growing homegrown food during a historic time period of people being home more in their own backyards. What started out as sharing a hobby, quickly became a mission to inspire healthy living and help her community reconnect with nature.

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A self-taught intuitive gardener for over a decade, Kirsten revels in the unending process of learning that the garden provides. In addition to offering garden coaching, design services and planting services, Kirsten has expanded her services to include teaching. Kirsten has taught garden lessons at C.A.S.T., North Fork Discoveries and Southold Library.

For the past five years, under Kirsten’s leadership, the Yard Crop team has built dozens of backyard raised bed gardens, installed numerous native pollinator gardens, planted hundreds of edible plants and helped form a community of North Fork gardeners. Kirsten lives in Southold with her family, who thoroughly enjoy getting their hands dirty and harvesting in their own home garden.