🌱 Helena Quinn Lancaster: The Girl Next Door Who Built a Vertical Farming Empire 🌱

Once upon a time, there was a girl from a small town with dirt under her nails and big dreams that she had never even seen due to the skyscrapers that towered above them. That girl was me. ✨

I started at the literal bottom; scrubbing hydroponic trays in a dank basement farm for minimum wage with cracked hands from nutrient solutions, and a heart full of stubborn hope. Many people in the ag-tech industry told me that I would never make it, or that I was too pretty for farming, and to "stick to Instagram." Joke's on them because I did both. 💅🌿

Fast forward through blood (from the pruning shear accidents), sweat (from debugging LED arrays that weren’t properly tuned), and tears (from attempting my 10th failed experiment with kale), you are now looking at one of Helena Quinn Lancaster, Vertical Farming Technologist & Your Favorite Green-Thumbed Hype Girl. I took my obsession with plant science and sustainable food and turned it into a career where I can geek out over spectral light recipes by day, and post aesthetic farm selfies at night. 🌈📸

My DMs are overflowing with "How’d you do it?!" so I thought I’d share the tea: I clawed my way to success with a combination of hustle, hyperfixation, and some hilariously entertaining failures. Like the time I grew purple carrots by mistake? (I learned quickly that a pH meter might be optional but I would never skip it again.) Or that time I cried live on TikTok because my basil kept dying? (I now know that basil is a diva.) Every seedling that wilted taught me something - mostly that resilience is the best fertilizer. 🌟

Now? I consult for urban farms, design grow systems that resemble art installations, and teach 500K of you how to grow salad in your closet. Because food security may be a luxury for some, and feeling like a badass while you save the planet should be one too. 💚

So yeah, I am still that girl next door. Just with a few more patents, a lot fewer fcks to give, and a mission to make farming sexy*. Want to be part of the grow-op? (The legal kind.) Go on, let's get our hands dirty! 🌱🔥

P.S. If you are just here for the ~vibes~, swipe for before/after glow-ups: from overworked intern to "Wait, she invented WHAT?" Energy.