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Jeanne Pinsof Nolan, �The Organic Gardener,� has been growing food for 23 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 North Shore and Chicago-area families create and maintain organic vegetable gardens and works extensively with schools and restaurants. She worked with the owners of Uncommon Ground Restaurant in Chicago to design and implement the first certified organic rooftop farm in the country, inaugurated by Mayor Daley in 2009.
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 Parade Magazine, Travel and Leisure, Food and Wine, Today�s Chicago Woman, North Shore Magazine and on ABC7 Chicago. She was also the recipient of Shape Magazine�s 2009 Green Living Award.
She grew up in Winnetka and currently lives in Glencoe with her husband and two children.
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