Links to the People in Growing Roots
| Introduction by Deborah Madison. Deborah is one of everybody’s favorite cookbook writers. Her awareness of good food and right action comes from years of cooking and studying at the San Francisco Zen Center. Since that time she has worked at Chez Panisse Restaurant and opened Greens Restaurant – one of the early restaurants in San Francisco to have a farm driven menu. She has written many cookbooks, her most recent being, "What We Eat When We Eat Alone."
Online at: Deborah Madison.com |
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Samantha Johnson is finishing her pre-med work at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. She has been part of every food fad imaginable and now eats a balanced diet of raw, organic and grass fed. She is a part-time cook and will be going to naturopathic school when she graduates.
Email to: Windwalk Woman |
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Alex Hill is a mushroomer, living in Healdsburg, California. He also works in the world of local and sustainable wines. |
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Gabrielle Langholtz is the editor of Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn. She is married to Stone Barn’s livestock manager, Craig Haney, and they have a little girl named Bess. Online at: Edible Manhattan.com |
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Shannon Hayes is a writer, farmer, mother, and activist who works with her husband and parents at Sap Bush Hollow Farm. She has written two cookbooks and her newest book is called, Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture. |
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Josh Viertel was one of the originators of the Yale Sustainable Garden and is now President of SlowFood USA. |
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Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis met at Yale University and really put the Sustainable Garden on its feet. They’ve made three movies together, King Corn, Farm Truck and The City Dark. Online at: King Corn.net |
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Elspeth Hay lives in Wellsfleet, MA and is the creator of the Local Food Report, a weekly show on the Cape and Islands NPR station. She also writes several columns about eating locally and shares stories
online at: Diary of a Locavore.com |
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Chris Jackson, while working at Six Penn Restaurant in Pittsburgh, PA., grew a rooftop garden that specialized in tomatoes, lettuce and heirloom cayenne peppers going back to Thomas Jefferson’s garden. Now Chris has a restaurant of his own, Ted & Honey in Cobble Hill Brooklyn where he uses local and seasonal foods and has a bigger spread of tomatoes nearby! |
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Nate Pirgowicz is an organic wheat farmer in Columbus County, Ohio. He doesn’t have email. |
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Local Choice is a farm market in Spring Green, Wisconsin run by Nicholas Zimmer and the Zimmer Family who is renovating the land at Taliesin and growing organic produce.
Online at: Taliesin.edu |
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Ashley Lee Martin lives on the White Earth Reservation and grew up in a family of ricers. She works at the Native Harvest Store part-time where she cooks and is involved with the White Earth Land Recovery Project in trying to preserve the ways of the Chippewa-Ojibwe people. She is co-coordinator of the Farm-to-School Program initiative. Online at: Native Harvest.com and White Earth Tribal Court.com |
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Joslyn Erica owns Hummingbird Herbals in Durango, Colorado. She spends many hours gathering local herbs from the nearby fields and mountain area. Online at: Hummingbird Herbals.com |
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Nasha Winters is a naturopathic doctor who works and lives in Durango, Colorado. Online at: Namaste Health Center.com |
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Emily Capelin and Zak Randell have traveled all over the country and most recently to the Northwest Territories in their vegetable oil truck. Email to: Emily Capelin and Zak Randell |
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Jessica Prentice is a professional chef who originated the term Locavore and is one of the co-owners of a CSK (Community Sustainable Kitchen) Three Stone Hearth, in Oakland California. Jessica’s most recent book is Full Moon Feast. Online at: Three Stone Hearth.com |
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Neal Gottlieb owns Three Twins Ice Cream, which is readily available all over the Bay area of California. Online at: Three Twins Ice Cream.com |
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Tucker Hemquist has his training in permaculture. He lives on two acres in Forestville, CA where he is food-foresting the entire property and feeding himself entirely from the land. Tucker formerly helped develop the sustainability program at Skipstone Olive Oil Ranch in Geyersville, CA. |
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Benina Marie Burroughs owns Vista Almonds where she has transitioned 250 acres of almond groves to organic. The rest of her almonds to follow. |
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Jeremiath Gettle has been saving seeds since he was 4 years old. He now owns and runs the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company that has a 120 page glossy catalogue that comes out annually to 190,000 people. The Gettle Family lives on a replica of a pioneer town in Mansfield, Missouri.
Online at: Rare Seeds.com |
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Alden and Melissa Smith work at The Mountain School, a semester program open to all juniors in high school. The school’s program includes working on a beautiful organic Vermont Farm with high academics. Online at: Mountain School.org |
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Zachary Stotz is a lobsterman who lives and works in Round Pond, Maine. |
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Grant Estrade owns and operates Laughing Buddha Nursery in Metairie, New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina he has helped set up gardens all over New Orleans. Online at: Laughing Buddha Nursery.com |
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Vanessa Ulmer works with Tulane University implementing strategies to bring grocery stores, farmers markets, urban gardens and other healthy-food retailers into underserved areas of New Orleans. |
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Cullen Owen and his family operate Spinning Spider Creamery a micro dairy nestled between the Smokies and the Blue Ridge Mountain where Saanen Goats are grass-fed, providing milk to make a variation of soft goat cheeses.
Online at: Spinning Spider Creamery.com |
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Annie Louise Perkinson is a first cousin of Jamie Ager. She and her husband Isaiah live down the road form the Hickory Nut Gap Farm on Flying Cloud Farm with eleven-acres. They have a CSA. Online at: Flying Cloud Farm.com. |
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Pilar Trujillo and her two siblings, Adán and Omar have a family farm, El Rincon Farm, in Chimayo, New Mexico which is flood irrigated by the Acequia de la Cañada Ancha waterway, five and half miles long and irrigating 200 acres, twenty of which belong to the Trujillos.
They specialize in red chili peppers. Online at: Las Acequias.org |
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Makenna Leiner Goodman lives in Washington, Vermont on a ninety-acre farm with 150 chickens, three cows, four lambs and pigs. She is a writer and editor. |
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Dan and Becca James of The James Ranch are one of four families that currently have come home to their family ranch in Durango, Colorado. They have two children, a herd of Jersey cows, and pigs. They make raw milk cheeses in batches of 50-150 gallons in a round vat imported form Holland. The whey is mixed with grain and fed to the pigs, which are also rotated on their lush pastures in the same manner as their cows. The James Ranch meat and milk is produced without use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides or antibiotics.
Online at: James Ranch.net |
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Julien Gervreau is currently enrolled in a sustainable management MBA program at Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco where he’s delving into the world of renewable energy and water conservation. He’s spent the last five years working with his family’s marketing and public relations firm, launching and repositioning the images of national and international wineries, with a focus on sustainable viticulture.
Online at: MGPR.com |
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Jamie Peterson has a huge organic vegetable garden in Healdsburg, California, orders his seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds and handles all the responsibilities as winemaker for Peterson Vineyards.
Online at: Peterson Winery.com |
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Jen Small and Mike Yezzi own Flying Pigs Farm in Sushan, New York. They have two children. |
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The Shaw Family has a 70-acre poultry farm in Greenwich, New York and around Thanksgiving some of the best turkeys in the area. The rest of the year they can be counted on for scrumptious chickens, ducks, Guinea fowl and rabbits. They have nine children and one on the way. (518) 695-6801 |
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Andrew Coté owns the Silvermine Apiary, and is the fourth generation to tend bees. He has a non-profit called "Bees Without Borders" and works with people around the globe particularly in war torn areas, teaching them how to re-establish their beekeeping traditions.
Online at: Bees Without Borders.org |
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Anna Lappé is a writer and food activist living in Brooklyn with her husband and baby Ida. She co-authored Hope’s Edge with her mother, Francis Moore Lappé and Grub with Bryant Terry. She recently released her newest book: Diet for a Hot Planet. |
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Charter Williams owns The Juice restaurant in Wellfleet, Massachusetts and is an oysterman. |
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Dan Neufeld is the miller at the historic Daisy Flour Mill in Annville, Pennsylvania. |
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Lora Krogman and Angelic Organics is located in Caledonia, Illinois and was started by Farmer John Peterson and his family. The documentary, "The Real Dirt on Farmer John" is a lighthearted look at his biodynamic farm and CSA (Community Sustainable Agriculture). Online at: Angelic Organics.com |
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Ryan Hewson finished his masters program at Taliesin where he also ran the organic garden that fed the student body. He is now an architect living in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Online at: Taliesin Preservation.org |
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Jennifer Craig is the co-owner of The Durango Compost Company. She teaches composting and spends a lot of time with red wiggler worms. Online at: Durango Compost.com |
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Blake Spalding and Jennifer Castle co-own Hell’s Backbone Grill in Boulder, Colorado, one of the finest sustainable restaurants anywhere. The vegetables come from nearby Nathaneal Spalding’s organic farm. Online at: Hells Backbone Grill.com |
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Matthew Moore is a world renowned artist and a farmer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. |
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Alison Bailey Vercruysse own 18 Rabbits, some of the most delicious granola and granola bars you’ll ever taste! Online at: 18 Rabbits.com |
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Bryant Terry lives in Oakland, California and co-wrote "Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen" with Anna Lappé. His second book, "Vegan Soul Kitchen" came out in 2009. He hosted the PBS series "The Endless Feast" and was one of the commentators on "Big Ideas for a Small Planet."
Online at: Bryant Terry.com |
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Taylor Boetticher owns an artisanal charcuterie and butcher shop in Napa, California. Online at: Fatted Calf.com |
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Carolyn Swanson lives in beautiful Pacific Grove, California where she owns her own business using products made from renewable sources such as corn, sugar cane, and potatoes, all 100 percent compostable, for restaurants. |
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Hillary Brown always wanted to run a fast food restaurant with good, clean, grass fed meats. Local Burger in Lawrence, Kansas is her baby. |
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The Farmers Diner is located in Quechee, Vermont just off Route 4 in a restored 1946 diner. Run by Tod Murphy, the food is all local and serves breakfast and lunch during the winter months and dinner during the summer. Barbara Kingsolver said in her book "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" that the Farmers Diner is a restaurant for folks who want to fill up with a burger that does not come with a side of feedlot remorse. |
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Eliza Jamison and The Jamison Lamb Farm is located in Latrobe, PA and is renowned in the area for the delectable grass fed lambs they raise.
Online at: Jamison Farm.com |
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April Neujean is the head garden teacher at The Edible Schoolyard in New Orleans. Online at: ESY NOLA.org |
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Emery Van Hook works with the Crescent City Farmers Markets in New Orleans and, after Hurricane Katrina, moved home from New York City where she had a great job in the food industry. Online at: Market Umbrella.org |
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Sarah Custer is part of the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship where she is learning what it takes to get food to the hungry. Online at: Hunger Center.org |
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Jamie Ager and Amy are both graduates of Warren Wilson College and now part of a six hundred acre family farm share in Buncombe County, North Carolina. They have two children. Online at: Hickory Nut Gap Farm.com |
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Daniel Salatin started butchering chickens when he was 3 or 4. When he was 16 he started raising rabbits. Now he and his wife Sheri run the day-to-day at Polyface Farm which even before Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore's Dilemma was well known for its management intensive grazing practices. Their "Buying Club" has grown from 30-1400 shares.
Online at: Polyface Farms.com |
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Katrina Blair is the founder and owner of the Local Wild Life Café in Durango Colorado which utilizes a magnificent collection of recipes that include local wild foods. Katrina lives in the Hidden Valley, an overgrown valley less than 5 miles from town where many of their organic micro-greens are grown. Katrina works with the local Farm-to-School group and provides educational programs focusing on sustainable practices in the schools. She has just written a cookbook called "Local Wild Life: Turtle Lake Refuge’s Recipes for Living Deep."
Online at: Turtle Lake Refuge.org |