All About!

Vegetarian and local and organic, oh my! Growing Chefs was founded in 2005 as a way to teach families about the delicious, wonderful ways in which food gets from the soil to the kitchen. Annie’s love of plants is translated here into recipes using local ingredients and ideas from wherever she travels. Annie’s philosophy is simple: “Broccoli is not boring!”

Annie is the Children’s Gardening Coordinator at The New York Botanical Garden and a farmer’s market aide at the Union Square Greenmarket. She commutes by bike and helps friends raise apartment gardens. Growing Chefs is has been taught at the Darien Nature Center and after school programs throughout the Bronx.

A lifelong vegetarian, Annie spends several months of the year traveling and investigating different ways people grow and eat their food around the world. She’s followed blueberries and cows through New Zealand, sheep and hops through Argentina, quinoa and llamas through Peru, cassava and fish through Fiji and the Cook Islands, and chocolate through Ghana.

Please send along questions, stories and recipes to GrowingChefs@gmail.com.