Our Story

We are three friends who completed a three-month-long bicycle journey to tour and document food-producing garden projects from Washington D.C. to Montreal – and back again. We completed this journey and the documentary film is now available for distribution!

who we are & where we are

Liz Tylander, also known as “the tree lady” lived in the D.C. area for over seven years. She enjoys wearing spandex more than most people and has an uncanny appetite for ice cream. Professionally, she’s done everything from birthday party gigs as ‘princess barbie’ to community organizing around tree plantings. Alter returning from the bike tour, Liz worked with the Urban Forestry Administration and became a Certified Arborist. She currently lives on a farm in Chile and will continue to farm in Maine when she returns.

Kat Shiffler, known for her accapella rendition of “holy diver”, is 100% Nebraskan, but transplated herself in D.C. for a time. Her jobs have been varied, she has worked researching international labor rights, apprenticed doing strawbale construction, lived in the himalayan kingdom of bhutan, worked as a bike mechanic and landscaper, and experimented in the realm of community radio and freelance journalism. She is currently working on a farm in Chile and upon returning will be working on a farm in Maine.  She still dreams of eventually getting the chance to experience railbiking in the addirondacks.

Lara “lightning fast” Sheets, grew up in a beach town but made her way to the capital city to work for the Smithsonian after college. She loves long conversations about anthropology and/or the pacific northwest. She’s known to be quite the puppeteer, greenroofer, musician, natural builder, dancer, storyteller… the list goes on and on. She recently left her job as a gardener for the British Embassy to pursue the life of a farmer at the Glynwood Center in Cold Springs, New York.