Chris and Elham met at the exact site where they will be getting married just two weeks shy of a year later - the big red barn shelter at Tolt MacDonald park. Both had been invited by mutual friends to a gathering of people interested in local agriculture and community building. Chris was enjoying some delicious watermelon at the refreshments table and asked Elham if she knew where he could compost the rind. She didn't know, but they started up a conversation nevertheless. That conversation lasted the next three hours of the gathering, deepened over the following weeks and months, and still continues to this day.