When Kristen was a kid, she’d pull the carrots from the ground before they were ripe, wash them in the baby wading pool and munch away. It was the beginning of her love for gardening.

Fast forward and she found herself at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington with its organic farm on campus, and Ecological Agriculture program. It was there where she realized that her passion for growing things would also become her career. With the abundance of herbs and fungi in the Pacific North West, her learning grew beyond the scope of just how to plant (and eat from) a garden.

When deciding on her master’s thesis, she collected all of her information and designed a project to test the difference in growth rates between corn which had been fortified with Mycorrhizal fungi and corn which had not. Right off the bat, the root structure of the inoculated corn was much better developed. A frost hit and wiped out the non-fortified corn. Amazingly, the corn that had been fortified with Mycorrhizae was still standing! She knew she was on to something important.

After graduating from the University of Nebraska in the Summer of 2012 with an MS in Sustainable Agriculture and moving back to her home state of New Jersey, Kristen knew she had to share this amazing fungus with the world!

All Organic, NON GMOs seeds, including lots of heirlooms, All fortified with this amazing fungus! In addition, she discovered how Beneficial Bacteria and another fungi: Trichoderma, improve plant growth and here began Dirt Goddess Super Seeds!

Her operations have been expanding and recently she has started up Dirt Goddess Garlic Farm in Port Jervis, NY.