Schmidt worked with historian John Atkin, poet Rahat Kurd, horticulturalist Egan Davis, and indigenous herbalist Lori Snyder as a part of the Artist in Communities program through the Vancouver Park Board.
[2] Since 2014, Schmidt has employed her father's (a former professor in the sciences) astronomy slide collection that spans over thirty years of diagrams, illustrations, NASA and other observatory photographs and various technical capacities to document the universe.
In a vacant industrial lot near Vancouver's Olympic Village, Schmidt occupied the space with a living garden that brought people together to share their knowledge and experience in sustainable design and Eco-philosophy.
[5] The work evolved into other participatory and collaborative events, such as Moveable Feast at Burnaby Art Gallery which featured foraged food and locally found ingredients, honey, spiced mead, fermented beverages, simple cheese making and pickled vegetables.
Some recent projects include "Amalgamate" (2019) which used a large slab of granite in a gallery setting as a reminder that when geological forms are removed they can't be put back.