Podcasts about growing chefs

On this week's episode of Fields, Melissa (Wythe was away on jury duty) speaks with the multi-talented Annie Novak.Annie is the co-founder of Eagle Street Rooftop Farm, the director of Growing Chefs, a nonprofit that provides food education in schools and the community, the manager of the Edible Academy at the New York Botanical Garden, and the author of The Rooftop Growing Guide: How to Transform Your Roof into a Vegetable Garden or Farm. Annie began her journey into growing with commodity chain analysis (where does food come from, and where does it go?), by working at greenmarkets, and by learning from farmers in Upstate New York. She still stresses a regional perspective, emphasizing the importance of rural farms. Of course, she still loves botanical gardens and urban farms for their social impacts and educational offerings. Today, much of Annie's work focuses on education. At the Edible Academy at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, she offers children and adults first-hand experiences with plants and fungi in a vegetable garden and a greenhouse.Melissa and Annie dive into how trees communicate, the metaphors we use to talk about plants and fungi, how they relate to each other and to us, and the need for “tenderness toward nonhuman things.” The two discuss creating biodiverse farm ecosystems and revisit the idea of seeds as time travelers. Annie offers a profound appreciation for the nonhuman living world. It's a deep conversation, and one you won't want to miss!Photo courtesy of Naima Green.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Fields by becoming a member!Fields is Powered by Simplecast.

In this episode, we speak with festival organizer Savannah about what to expect at this year's festival, how the festival came to be in the first place, why they went on hiatus and why they decided to come back this year, some of Sav's favourite memories from past festivals and what she's looking forward most this year, and much more!  Winter Spectacular is a weekend of amazing programming happening February 17th - 19th in London. On Friday they are hosting a Dinner & a Show, with a beautiful dinner from Growing Chefs! With musical performances and the ‘It's not you, it's London' Awards. Saturday is a show at the Children's Museum featuring some of the best musical talents from London and beyond. Finally, Sunday, Punk Rock Flea Market with amazing artisans for your retail therapy needs! Don't miss out on this amazing festival! Get your tickets now!! More Winter Spectacular:  Website: https://www.winterspectacular.ca/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/winterspectacular/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/winterspectacular/

In our first episode of 2023, Diane speaks to Andrew Fleet, Executive Director of Growing Chefs! Ontario, about the innovative work they're doing here in London to make systemic changes to Ontario's food systems and education. Episode Length: 31:00

Do I need a soil test? And what kind of amendments should I be adding to my vegetable beds or containers to get things off to a good start? And how can I fine tune my composting this year to optimize results? Those are some of the timely questions I covered with Annie Novak, manager of the Edible Academy at the New York Botanical Garden.  Annie is also founder and director of Growing Chefs, a field-to-fork food education program, and co-founder of Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Plus, she wrote “The Rooftop Growing Guide.” Annie will be one of the expert presenters at the upcoming Workshop Experience Weekend, May 7th and 8th, in the Hudson Valley of New York that I'm helping organize.

Growing Chefs! Ontario is a registered charity based in London, Ontario that unites chefs, growers, educators and community members in children's food education projects. Growing Chefs! Ontario offers a variety of Food Education Projects to get kids and communities excited about healthy, wholesome food! In this episode, Andrew tells us all about how he got started with Growing Chefs in Vancouver, how and why he decided to create a headquarters for Growing Chefs in London, the Food Education Programs that they run, such as Growing Communities, Kid's Monthly Cooking Classes and more, the collaborations and other programs Growing Chefs has helped with, how to get over being a picky eater and much more!  Growing Chefs! Information Website: https://growingchefsontario.ca  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingchefsontario/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/growingchefsontario  London's Pretty Cool Information:  Email: lpcpod@gmail.com  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lpcpodcast/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LPCPod/  Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVMSbxJ8T9vxDCfReDU8KUQ  Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43R5Q9JIsuWgS19TGxAKnU  Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/londons-pretty-cool/id1456976350  Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9sb25kb25zcHJldHR5Y29vbC5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjNuNCE963yAhVmgnIEHbDDBa4Q9sEGegQIARAC 

Today my guests are two members of a Vancouver-based charity leading the education of the next generation of food producers and chefs. We talk about chocolate too! Detailed show notes are at the Cheftimony website.

Some people are just naturally talented.  Enter Andrew Paumier, co-owner of Indecent Risotto.  He and his partner Shannon, both in life and business, have been slingin' arancini balls all around the CRD since 2016.  Aside from being obviously charming and a delight to speak with, Andrew has dedicated his career to supporting the community.  Whether it be bringing people together one arancini at a time, sharing his advice and experience with fellow entrepreneurs or mentoring the next generation through Growing Chefs! which connects chefs, kids and communities to foster systemic change towards healthy, sustainable, just food practices.Learn more at https://www.growingchefs.ca/Thank you Chef!  This conversation was a blast and by far the least amount of editing we've had to do...

Vancouver Just Recovery Coalition co-chairs Matthew Norris and Kimberley Wong discuss how people in the 20s and 30s are affected by COVID-19. Growing Chefs executive director Amanda Adams and chef Linda Olsen share advice for cooking during the pandemic.

In this episode, Tommy and Deon sit down with Andrew Fleet from Growing Chefs Ontario, one of the countries biggest educational organizations for childhood nutrition.

Spring is finally here, and we're kicking off the growing season with a Please Explain that’s all about urban agriculture and city gardens! Find out the best ways to maximize your green space - whether it’s a window box, rooftop plot or a community garden. We’ll also look at the city’s growing rooftop-farm movement, discuss public garden spaces and find out why rooftop gardens are an ecological necessity in our urban landscape. Joining us is Annie Novak, co-founder and head farmer of the nation’s first commercial green roof row farm, Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Brooklyn. She’s also the manager of the Edible Academy at New York Botanical Garden, founder and director of Growing Chefs and author of The Rooftop Growing Guide. We’ll also be joined by Gerard Lordahl, Director of Open Space Greening Program at GrowNYC, a non-profit which operates local environmental programs, including the city Greenmarkets.  Send us your questions in a comment below, or let us know on Twitter or Facebook!

This week on Feast Yr Ears , host Harry Rosenblum is on the line with Annie Novak, the head farmer and cofounder of the nation’s first commercial green roof vegetable farm, the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm atop Broadway Stages in Brooklyn, as well as the manager of the Edible Academy at the New York Botanical Garden, and founder and director of Growing Chefs, a field-to-fork food education program. Her new book “The Rooftop Growing Guide” is a stylish, easy-to-use book for urban gardeners interested in utilizing their roof space for growing food. Tune in to hear her food and life story plus highlights from the book!

Interview with Annie Novak, the Brooklyn-based horticulturalist, rooftop farmer, and author. Annie is founder and director of Growing Chefs, a field-to-fork food education program; Manager of the Edible Academy at the New York Botanical Garden, and co-founder and farmer of Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Her writings have been published in The Atlantic, Diner Journal, and others, and she has a book coming out! It’s called The Rooftop Growing Guide: How to Transform Your Roof into a Vegetable Garden or Farm, and it comes out in early 2016. This episode has a few literary and cultural references thrown in - it’s all detailed in the show notes at tastygrinds.com. Hosted by Dabney Gough. Theme music by Tyler McMahon.