Ep 2 | Annie Novak - Rooftop Farmer

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.