Stewards of the Garden
Josh Singleton,
Founder & Lead Cultivator
“Serving the soil, people, and purpose from the ground up.”
Barker Cypress - Garden
Josh is a steward of the garden in every sense of the word. He tends not only to soil and seed but also to the souls that pass through its gates. With over two decades of experience in agriculture, Josh has shifted his focus from growing food to cultivating people. He believes the garden is a sacred place where people are invited to become, where transformation is not forced, but gently cultivated.
As the Founder and Lead Cultivator of The Neighborhood Garden Project, Josh walks slowly and intentionally, creating space for others to reconnect with purpose, embrace their identity, and experience lasting change through the slow cultivation of trust, truth, and transformation. He sees the garden as more than a plot. It is a Kingdom embassy where heaven meets earth through hands in the soil and hearts made whole.
Josh is currently filling in as Garden Shepherd and Community Cultivator at the Barker Cypress location, continuing to embody the mission at ground level—staying close to the soil, the people, and the daily rhythms that anchor the entire movement.
He has seen too much in the soil to believe that speed produces depth. He’s convinced there is a slower, more formative way—a way that honors process over pressure and presence over performance.
Serving the soil, people, and purpose from the ground up, Josh lives and leads from below—anchored in surrender, marked by presence, and devoted to cultivating the unseen until it bears fruit.
Kayla Bellamy
Garden Shepherd and Community Cultivator
“Tending soil and souls with presence, patience, and purpose—one seed, one story at a time.”
Old Katy - Garden
Kayla’s work is rooted in the belief that gardens grow more than food — they cultivate people. As our Garden Shepherd and Community Cultivator at our Old Katy location, she tends to both soil and soul with presence and purpose, one seed and one story at a time.
With a deep passion for hands-on education and mentorship, Kayla empowers individuals of all ages to connect with the earth, cultivate vegetables, herbs, and flowers, and embrace sustainable gardening practices. In our long growing seasons, she helps cultivate not just thriving gardens, but also confidence, connection, and community.
For Kayla, The Neighborhood Garden Project is more than a garden — it's a gathering place where knowledge is shared, purpose is planted, and transformation unfolds through rhythm, relationship, and rootedness.
Lizzie Robbins
Ecclesial Cultivator
“Helping the church see the garden—and the garden see the church—as one living body.”
Lizzie is a community connector, teacher, and bridgekeeper. She walks with churches and communities as they discern a call to partner with The Neighborhood Garden Project. She wonders with established and future partners about how the Holy Spirit is moving through questions like: “What ministries and missional communities is God planting?” and “How might a garden transform the way church happens here?”
Helping the church see the garden—and the garden see the church—as one living body, Lizzie invites both spaces to become a shared vessel for Kingdom growth. The garden has the capacity to transform communities through the presence it demands, the connections it creates, the wisdom it provides, and the many graces it blooms. When communities open themselves and the land they steward, they create a space of encounter—not only for neighbors to meet one another, but for people to encounter the Living God in the soil, the plants, and in the hearts of others.
Lizzie is also an Episcopal priest who cultivates new communities at the church where she serves.