Julie has always been an outdoors person. She loved canoeing, camping, hiking, fishing, gardening, and exploring the woods.

She traveled with her family, worked in medical technology, taught firearms safety, and spent her days finding ways to stay busy and connected to her community. In 2020, everything changed.

After becoming seriously ill, Julie developed long-term health complications that have affected her mobility, balance, strength, and energy.

Today, she often relies on a walker or wheelchair and has had to give up many of the activities that once filled her life. But Julie isn’t sitting still.

She turned her love of gardening into a small urban farm, growing and selling microgreens to local families, farmers markets, chefs, restaurants, and other farms.

“I may be broken, but I’m not dead.”