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Vicki Nowicki is degreed in Horticulture, Environmental Studies, Environmental Education and Museum Exhibit Research and Design. Since receiving her Master's Degree 30 years ago, Vicki has focused her research on the history of attitudes and perceptions of home landscapes in America since colonial times. She and her husband Ron own a design/build firm, The Land Office where she focuses on Herbaceous Garden Design and Installation.
She has spent much of the last 30 years growing, harvesting and preserving the vegetables, fruits and herbs from the Circle GardenFarm, Ron and Vicki�s home/office permaculture landscape. She co-founded the first chapter of The Wild Ones outside of Wisconsin, a group devoted to using native plants in the home landscape. Today, she is the president emeritus of the Downers Grove Organic Gardening Club, a group focused on growing vegetables in the home landscape.
She is well known for teaching a prolific number of diverse classes on growing and using vegetables, herbs, heirlooms and more. Her fondest dream is to see everyone growing some food at home and cooking it with their families! Therefore, in 2008, Vicki launched a new business called Let's Grow. She and her crew plant, maintain and harvest vegetables, herbs and cut flowers for clients who want to eat organically. Most notably, though, 2008 was the year of the Liberty Gardens. Hundreds of people have already posted signs and changed their lives by growing food at home! They have access to a newsletter and website that are connected to the real calendar so they can follow day by day gardening help all through the year.
Now in 2009 she has won the Gardener's Supply National Garden Crusader Award for helping families restore their depleted soils and begin growing food with confidence again. She has co-founded the Slow Food City's Edge Convivium , a division of Slow Food USA which serves the western suburbs.
Vicki is an author, a teacher, a leader and a devoted environmentalist.
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