An internship with the garden team at Babylonstoren Wine Estate, Western Cape, South Africa — working across fruit orchards, vegetable beds, and the native South African succulent collection on one of the oldest Cape Dutch farms in the region, dating to 1692.

Exploring Utrecht University Botanic Gardens in the Netherlands — a university research garden featuring alpine rock gardens, peat block slope plantings, tropical greenhouses, and a Native American plant collection on a moated island.