About Us
Kristin Parsons, NCIDQ LEED AP PDC
Founder/owner of cultivated LLC, Kristin is also Licensed Interior Designer working in commercial architecture for over 15 years, Mom, Wife, Permaculturist and more! She still works in Architecture part time, and utilizes architecture software to design people's forest gardens. With her farm helper kindergartner's adorable enthusiasm and her husband's support she maintains a 1/2 acre forest garden, freeze drying everything she possibly can. She teaches Permaculture and is also a founding member of the Arizona Flower Collective. She loves to read books about plants, talk about plants, grow plants, and eat yummy plants! After doing edible landscape designs for 5 years, she rebranded her LLC to "cultivated" in 2020 so that it could be a brand that reflected more of her holistic lifestyle and not just the design work.
Kristin and Melissa's Story:
Long time gardeners volunteering together became friends. Friends who started sharing plant orders, seeds, time working in each others gardens, and talking about edible landscapes. Sharing the love of growing food and flowers with the community is what lights us up!
Melissa Braudaway
A retired Audiologist, Melissa has a well established forest garden at her property. Her three children are grown, and she and her husband enjoy visiting them and their grandbabies whenever they get the chance. She became a co-gardener and recipe co-creator for the freeze dried products at cultivated in 2022.
Nolan Parsons
Nolan is the designated-sticker-applicator so if you get a product where the label looks like it was applied by a five year old, it's because it likely was! Kristin is thrilled to pass the love of nature and plants along to her son and will take his help as long as he is willing to share it...he loves putting on this "em-poy-ee" shirt and arranging flowers!
