Expo Spotlight

Trevor Swedenburg

Trevor Swedenburg is the Vice President of Culinary Operations at Natural State Medicinals, which means he cooks with plants that make you think about your childhood, your future, and maybe a grilled cheese sandwich.

He was born in Arkansas and through worldly travels, trained in the honorable art of making food taste like something worth remembering. He now applies that training daily in Jefferson County, where he runs a kitchen that smells faintly of chocolate, ambition, and controlled substances.

Trevor runs a kitchen built on discipline, curiosity, and the occasional philosophical debate over terpenes. His dishes are explorations — part science, part jazz, part edible rebellion. He’s not trying to change the world, but if a well-executed bite can tilt someone’s axis, so be it.

At home, Trevor lives with two cats named Brother and Jeff, who have no opinions about cannabis or cuisine, which Trevor finds oddly comforting.