GABRIELA RENI
she/her
Seasonal Engagement Assistant
Gabi is an multi-talented journalist, photographer, construction worker and most importantly, a gardener. Passionate about building and maintaining vegetable and succulent gardens back in the Bay Area in California since 2015, she completed the Fruit and Vegetable Crop Management Certificate Program at Michigan State University to further her knowledge about farming and apply it and contribute to the urban farming network in Detroit. Being a member of the Garden Resource Program at KGD, she has cultivated her backyard garden since 2021, and she has progressively expanded it to include native fruit trees and perennials inspired by permaculture techniques and habitat conservation values. She has also worked at indoor and outdoor farms with different growing systems in place. Her dream is to have a sustainable, organic permaculture farm within the city of Detroit that will be a hub for health and creativity for the community, merging food and art.
If she is not at the farm or at an outreach event representing KGD, you can find her tending to her garden, working in her house, reading, doing street photography, at music shows or dancing. She loves socializing and getting yo know new people.
Having grown in Caracas, Venezuela, and traveling around until setting roots in her favorite place in the world, Detroit, Gabi understands the importance of finding a sense of community and purpose where you call home.