MERLE DROOK
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Farm & Infrastructure Assistant
As the Farm & Infrastructure assistant, Merle helps lead the Build Crew apprenticeship, focusing on hands on learning through building rain catchments and hoop houses for farms and gardens in the garden resource program. Other days you can find them assisting with everyday tasks on the farm.
A passion for growing, building, and connecting with community led them to join KGD’s Garden Resource Program in 2019. From there, Merle joined Grown in Detroit and also participated in the first two seasons of the Build Crew apprenticeship.
Merle enjoys welding, mushroom cultivation and foraging, roller skating, being a mom and swimming in the Great Lakes.