Ying got her start working with a local food justice nonprofit, which, for the first time, was something that resonated with who she was as a person. She eventually moved on to work for an orchard, but after a bad growing season left her jobless, she was left once again trying to figure out her next steps. “I wanted to have a job inspired by today’s CSA model that supports local farms every week through a subscription, and in 2010, that job didn’t really exist,” she says. Her mother suggested she create that job for herself by starting her own business.