Iyalode Kinney, Founder/Garden Director of Comunities United Restoring Mother Earth (CURME), is an Earth mother, plant medicine woman, ethnobotanist, metaphysician, health conductor/practitioner, personal Shamba, Leaf Doctor, urban guerilla gardener, and alchemist. 

Her life and work embody the spirit of the Earth. She encourages all to volunteer at community gardens, start our own gardens, and to become responsible for our own health and the health of our environment. She possesses the gift of putting the welfare of people and the Earth first in her life. This is rare in a society which focuses on the pursuit of material and technological gain. She is truly a global teacher and a sage in her profession.

CURME was founded in 1999 to remind communities of their spiritual connection to the earth through the power of gardening. They build/create gardens that are outside classrooms and living/learning laboratories, inspiring all of us how to grow our own in a way that restores the health of the land, the water, the people, and the community. CURME reclaim vacant lots and schoolyards and turn them into flourishing gardens of utility and beauty where human, animal and botanical life mingle and create shared and sustained value.