Meet The Team

Carol Koury, Founder & President

Founder of Sow True Seed, Carol Koury, began her career as an advocate for animal protection, and expanded to become a financial advisor, an activist for women’s health and for the environment. Inspired by her father and grandmother, who grew most of the food she ate during her childhood, Carol, in turn, grew food for herself and her family. In the process, she became especially committed to providing healthy alternatives to conventionally produced food by supporting local agriculture and education about where food comes from. In addition to her many responsibilities as CEO, Carol is also Sow True’s resident photographer, den mother, chocolate provider, and Enneagram administrator.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ginger West, Office Manager

Ginger takes care of our daily office operations, including our customer service department and our seed money fundraising program. She’s happy to help you with all your Sow True Seed orders and questions. She comes to Sow True after a long stint as a small business owner and homeschooling mother of 3. In her spare time, Ginger helps to run Falconhurst Community Garden where she grows a year-round wealth of veggies, flowers and herbs with 15 other Asheville families.

Michael Brandt, Production Manager

Driven by heart and backbone this Leo is grateful to be a part of sowing true seeds across America and beyond. Mikey has been a poet, artist, film maker, journalist, event planner, a permanent student of life and most recently a man of cultivation. A long time lover of the outdoors, dirty hands and food fresh from the earth, Mikey is excited to now make in impactful contribution to hundreds of gardens and farms. Like a happy little gnome, Mikey sees to getting thousands of seed packets filled, and also makes sure those seeds are nice and healthy with an annual germination test. He’ll make you a customized packet for your special event, or build a customized rack for your store, but in both cases he’s apt to be smiling while he does it.

Cathryn Davis Zommer, Marketing & Communications

Originally from Asheville, Cathryn recently moved back to WNC from Manhattan to enjoy the Blue Ridge Mountains with her husband and two cats. Founder of Danu Collaborative, Cathryn runs our Marketing and Communications efforts — facilitating our website, creating mutually beneficial partnerships with like-minded organizations, and crafting messages to help us spread information about our seeds and our vision for a sustainable, locally driven food community.  Sometimes she’s puppeteering our 8 ft. Harvest Goddess.  At other times, she’s shooting and producing an issues-driven seed video or scouting out dynamic blogs to work with (got one? let us know!).  When she’s not trying to save the world, you might find her harvesting Red Russian kale for her daily kale shake. For media or partnership requests, please reach out to Cathryn at cathryn@sowtrue.com – thanks!