Erin has nurtured a love for the outdoors since she was a child and now finds great joy sharing this love with others. She has taught nature education for many years, ever since she earned a Naturalist Certification at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois. When she moved to Cincinnati, in 2011, she started Norwood Grows, which was a series of programs that taught garden, culinary, art, and nature-based skills to the children and teens of Norwood. She and her husband, Robert, also ran Moriah Pie for 8 years, a pay-as-you-can pizza restaurant that used only the food they grew in gardens around the neighborhood. In 2020, they closed Moriah Pie and later reopened For the Life of the World Cafe, which now serves breakfast right across the street from Trout Lily. They love taking the gifts of our neighborhood (plants, animals, food) and offering it to friends and neighbors in a way that connects them to this place and to each other.

Erin believes that children come to know themselves when they learn to know, love, and tend their own neighborhood - the chickens across the street, the tomato plants in the garden, the hawks at the park, the worms on the sidewalk.