Annie Novak is founder and director of the nonprofit organization Growing Chefs: Food Education from Field to Fork; farmer and co-founder of the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; and an educator for the New York Botanical Gardens.

A lifelong vegetarian, Annie’s passion for agriculture began while working with West African chocolate farmers. Annie has since followed food crops to their roots, farming internationally from Bolivia to Turkey; her adventures are cheerfully blogged at www.GrowingChefs.org. Facts about Eagle Street Rooftop Farm can be found here: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZg5tgioBjkyZGQyYjdxZGZfNDBkZGo5a2tncw&hl=en .
 
A Chicago native turned New Yorker, Annie has worked with the CENYC Greenmarket, Slow Food, and Just Food advocating for the growth of urban agriculture throughout NYC.