Amy Pennington

I am many things — a writer, author, and I owned one of the countries first urban farming businesses. After a severe illness in 2017, I now professionally focus on my passion for marketing. Read about my professional work here. I also continue to write about gardens, horticulture, lifestyle, wellness as a freelance contributor & provide healing work to family and friends.

ABOUT ME

Amy Pennington is a cook, author, and urban farmer. She is the author of Urban Pantry, Apartment Gardening, Apples from Harvest to Table, Fresh Pantry (with accompanying 12-month eBook series), Salad Days, and Tiny Space Gardening, released in April 2022. Pennington has been named one of Seattle Magazine's Top 50 most powerful players in Seattle's food scene and as a Bon Appetit Tastemaker. She has been featured in Bon Appetit, Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post, GOOP.com, and Apartment Therapy. She owned GoGo Green Garden, one of the countries first urban farming businesses, installing and cultivating organic edible gardens for homes and businesses, from 2004 to 2023.

GOGO GREEN GARDEN

I am all for LIVING GREEN! One earth, one you. Here is how it all began...

I have always loved food. I grew up on the eastern stretches of Long Island with goats in my front yard and a vegetable patch in back. I got up early to milk and earned first dibs at the cream, which I drank by the cupfulls. We raised and butchered a pig, Maggie, and later fried up her bacon.

As an adult, I worked with some of the best restaurants in the city, and I was surrounded by food every day. It is here where my love of food and an education in biology intersected. I became most interested in where the food I eat comes from. I started shopping at the farmers markets more than once a week. All of my food came from a local food source. I started cooking only with whole foods. And eventually, I needed some room to grow. It wasn't enough that I could get all my food from within a stones throw. I wanted to grow my own.

Growing your own food is a natural extension of eating healthy and eating well. With the knowledge of food miles, the prevalence of chemicals in industrial agriculture and the notion that shipping food halfway around the world is kooky, I officially launched GoGo Green Garden in 2007 as a way to educate, inspire and enjoy the qualities of locally grown food. With GoGo, I took the guess work out of backyard gardening so everyone could enjoy the fruits of their own labor. I closed GoGo at the end of the 2023 growing season, but I still work to instill a passion for food that extends well beyond the dirt of our own backyards and into our kitchens.

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