About us

Mission statement 

Sustainability is a global initiative that starts with you! 

Blossom & Root provides a welcoming and engaging, all-encompassing platform to learn the different aspects of sustainable living. As a community hub, Blossom & Root promotes life-changing opportunities for learning, teaching, networking, friendship, and inspiration. 

 

Mei-Ling Cheung

With a lifelong passion for sustainable living and respecting our environment that has provided us with our coveted natural resources, founder Mei-Ling Cheung, has created Blossom & Root to introduce these grounding values to people’s everyday lives around the world, in a fun and welcoming way.

Mei-Ling understands that everyone is functioning at a different stage in their life’s journey (she, herself is still in the middle of her journey), change happens over time, and that some foundations are stronger than others. Blossom & Root is her contribution to the world to inspire the creation of positive change through helping to build stronger communities, with solid foundations, that want to spread a culture of sustainable living for generations to come. 

Bio

Mei-Ling Cheung has a professional background in horticulture, urban forestry, utility arboriculture, environmental restoration, and permaculture. In her newest endeavor, she is providing a variety of classes to help people learn how to live a more sustainable lifestyle. Her classes focus on practical, hands-on skills and her style of teaching is fun and casual, yet structured and informative.

She has many hobbies and has been described as a renaissance woman with many skills. Mei-ling has made several wedding dresses and prom dresses. Her biggest sewing challenge was creating a unique 1940's wedding dress out of the bride's mother's 1970's wedding dress, while the bride to be lived in Nebraska and Mei-Ling lived in Maine.

Mei-Ling Cheung has loved jewelry making with beads, fiber, clay, and paper since she was a small child. When she moved to Maine in 2007 she started a jewelry making business wire wrapping high quality gems and minerals. She dabbled in PMC (Precious Metal Clay) after taking a course at Haystack School of Crafts in 2014. In 2021 she taught herself how to silver solder and has been hooked ever since! Her classes focus on practical, hands-on skills and her style of teaching is fun and casual, yet structured and informative.