Today, December 1st, we had a guest speaker in my RFT class. Her name was Annie Novak and she is founder and director of Growing Chefs field-to-fork food education program and the Manager of the Edible Academy at the New York Botanical Garden. She is also the co-founder and farmer of Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in partnership with Goode Green and Broadway Stages. She is the author of The Rooftop Growing Guide: How to Transform Your Roof into a Garden or Farm, published by Ten Speed Press. As she spoke to my class about her experience with plants, she had done it in such a passionate way and it really inspired me. Annie explained to the class why she chose to do this job for the rest of her life and the reason is because she wanted to study something she never knew about. She explained how she wanted a change and needed motivation for the rest of her life and that is how she is where she is now. Learning about plants was interesting for her and she became so involved and starting loving her job more and more each day.

Annie tells the class all about plants and rooftop gardens and how they are put together. She also explains in steps how fruits and vegetables are picked off plants and what happens after that. Annie prefers fruits and vegetables to be organic and she explained how it happens. She showed us on maps where rooftop gardens are located and how all of them are different. She spends a lot of time around plants and she really loves the concept of bees and soil because she tells us that the two help with plants. She taught me  so much about plants in such a short amount of time.

After Annie talked to my class, it really inspired me to take advantage of plants and trees and everything that gross on them. It is important to eat fruits and vegetables because provide us with so much nutrients, and they taste amazing as well! I enjoyed this guest speaker and I feel she is helping the environment and the world in such an amazing way.