Farmer Reci

Therese,"Reci” High, enBloom Resident Farmer

Therese, or "Reci" High, earned her Medical Assistant degree while still in high school and is celebrating her 26th year in healthcare, where she currently practices in Chiropractic/Physical Therapy. Therese's calling in health care is therapeutic and non-medicated, empowering the body to heal. A recent graduate of The University of Maryland Extension Master Gardener program, Therese will marry her teaching, growing, and therapy skills to help shape the course of sustainable health and guide others along their journeys in food sovereignty and wellness.

In January 2020, just before the pandemic's start, an unexpected hip replacement procedure came with a personal breakthrough. While figuring out how to continue to alleviate some financial strain despite her lack of mobility during her recovery, she accepted three plants, pepper, tomato, and zucchini, from a fellow civic association member -- with zero growing experience—that moment transformed Therese into a vegetable grower. By the end of that growing season, 22 pepper plants, 30 tomato plants, cabbage, and broccoli were under her care, unearthing a natural talent.
Knowing that the food we eat affects our physical bodies and mental state, her gift for growing food was in direct alignment with her passion for healing and wellness. Reci's love for teaching and newfound enthusiasm for vegetable growing spilled over into her daily conversations with clients as she shared the knowledge she was learning and the connections between the body -- movement, muscles, and bone structure.

Montgomery County, Maryland, born and raised in Maryland, has been residing in Annapolis for the past seven years. Her family is a first responder family, her husband, Rick, is a Howard County Firefighter and Army veteran. She has two beautiful, handsome, strong men as sons; one now is abroad at the Berklee School of Music in Valencia, Spain, and a ninth grader in a fine arts school mastering his craft in Taekwondo and theater.