Hyattsville resident Falani Spivey started growing crops at the Hyatt Park Community Garden in 2015 to boost her own mental health and make her lifestyle more sustainable.

In November of 2020, she launched Byrd’s Nest Box, which sells seasonal crops and organic seed packets.

Spivey continues to grow produce for sale year-round out of her 15 x 15 -foot garden plot at the Hyattsville community garden, which was highlighted recently in the Washington Business Journal.

On the second Friday and Saturday of each month, she sells curated organic produce boxes and other groceries at the Spice Suite shop near the Takoma Metro station at 6902 4th St NW in D.C.

In mid-September, she’ll begin selling seasonal farm boxes on her website as well, and she plans more in-person pop-ups this fall.

Spivey, who is also an independent documentary filmmaker and urban agriculturalist, spent her summers at her grandparents’ homestead in North Carolina, which she attributes to learning how farm.

Through Byrd’s Nest Box, which was as named after her childhood nickname “Byrd,” she sells organic seed packets online and offers a two-hour gardening class for $60 on Sundays.

She told the Hyattsville Wire that she’s looking to expand her operation and connect with more farmers in the area, but meanwhile she needs more space to meet her growing demand.

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