Sana Garner’s love of nature and design was solidified in elementary school when she designed and planted her first garden. She has a BFA in Ballet from the University of the Arts and an Interior Design degree from Parsons/New School.
Sana has created innovative living spaces, indoors and out from gyms to residential multi-unit developments, hotels, a circus tent, and ornamental and edible gardens. She utilizes design as a medium for positive impact. Sana helps families and communities by creating gardens and designing projects that value human dignity, accessibility, and stewardship.
Sana is the host of Backyard Blowout on Peacock. She has also appeared on Netflix, QVC and Universal Kids. Sana has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, House Beautiful and Realtor.com.
Sana lives in the Philadelphia area. She stewards the Philly Goat Project’s wheelchair-accessible, edible, sensory garden and teaches therapeutic gardening activities to people with disabilities. Sana organizes Creative Movers Playgroup for children with motor differences and medical complexities. She is also exploring the intersections of her African-American culture through food, gardening and ceramics.
Her extensive international travels led her to Greece to design a circus tent for an occupational therapy organization and work with refugees creating gardens and building furniture to ease life in their temporary conditions. Closer to home, Sana is a founder and board member of the Ridgewood Community Garden in NYC which serves as a source of healthy food for local residents and an edible teaching garden.
She is married to her college sweetheart and together they are parents to a wonderful little boy who is differently-abled.