Gladys Davis

Founding Manager

Cultivating Bliss Farm

4171 Washington Avenue
#8
St Louis, MO 63108

(w) (314) 402-8505

About

Cultivating Bliss Farm is owned and managed by Rev. Gladys Davis. Before transitioning into farming and food production Gladys was a Chaplain. Gladys, a single mother and survivor of domestic violence, has spent the last 13 years investigating and researching sustainable methods of food production. She began the Cultivating Bliss Farm with a 10ft by 16ft experimental farming plot, testing "straw bale" production of strawberries and asparagus in an urban environment.

Gladys lived in Chicago for 10 years before enrolling in a seminary on the Southside. Her education included an internship in a very small rural community in Eastern Oklahoma. As a Chaplain, she was employed at a transitional housing agency, providing service to homeless mothers and their children who had been in city shelters and were now progressing toward stable housing placement. She provided support to women who literally had nothing but the clothes on their backs and their children.

Gladys has lived and seen, the intentional poverty, in both rural and urban communities, created by systemic-structural oppression and knows the food insecurity wrought by an under funded public assistance program. It is these experiences that transplanted her into the field of food production; seeking the most effective, consistently affordable production methodologies for food equity and justice.