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Jeanne Pinsof Nolan, �The Organic Gardener,� has been growing food for over 20 years.
In her current role as project manager for Chicago�s Green City Market, she is responsible for designing and implementing The Edible Gardens, a 5,000 square foot vegetable garden for children at Lincoln Park Zoo. She is also the founder of �The Organic Gardener Ltd�, focusing on helping people to have fun successfully growing organic vegetables. She has helped hundreds of Chicago-area families create and maintain organic vegetable gardens and works extensively with schools, restaurants and institutions.
She began her career with an apprenticeship in organic vegetable gardening and farming in the high desert of California in 1987. For the next 17 years, she lived on three different organic farms located in Southern California, Austin and Asheville, N.C. During that time, she completed her apprenticeship and went on to manage the gardening operation, teaching her craft to both children and adults.
Nolan has been featured in Travel and Leisure, Food and Wine, Woman�s Day, Parade, Epicurious and other national magazines. In 2009, she was a recipient of Shape magazine�s �2009 Green Living Awards.� Locally she has had features in The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Social, North Shore Magazine and Today�s Chicago Woman.
She currently lives in Chicago with her husband and two children.
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