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Jeanne Pinsof Nolan | Jodie Shield
About Jeanne Pinsof Nolan:
In her current role as project manager for Chicago’s Green City Market, she is responsible for designing and implementing The Edible Gardens, a 5,000 square foot vegetable garden for children at Lincoln Park Zoo. She is also the founder of “The Organic Gardener Ltd”, focusing on helping people to have fun successfully growing organic vegetables. She has helped more than 150 Chicago-area families create and maintain organic vegetable gardens and works extensively with schools and restaurants.
She began her career with an apprenticeship in organic vegetable gardening and farming in the high desert of California in 1987. For the next 17 years, she lived on three different organic farms located in Southern California, Austin and Asheville, N.C. During that time, she completed her apprenticeship and went on to manage the gardening operation, teaching her craft to both children and adults.
Nolan has been featured in Travel and Leisure, Food and Wine and North Shore Weekly and on ABC7 Chicago. Recently, she was included in the April issue of Shape for the “2009 Green Living Awards."
Jeanne Pinsof Nolan has created a curriculum of handouts designed to cover the basics of planting a home and/or community vegetable garden. To view and download them, click here.
About Jodie Shield:
Jodie Shield, registered dietitian, has been a consultant and spokesperson in the field of nutrition for more than two decades. A former national media spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association (1989-1995), she has worked extensively with the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and taught nutrition and medical dietetics at the University of Illinois. Currently she is a complemental faculty member of the College of Health Sciences in the Department of Clinical Nutrition at Rush University in Chicago.
Shield is Senior Partner at JM & Associates, Inc., a nutrition communications firm. She has developed numerous consumer education materials and programs, participated in new product ideation sessions, evaluated recipe contests and provided strategic counsel to a roster of blue chip clients. Shield is co-author of the “American Dietetic Association's Guide to Healthy Eating For Kids” (John Wiley and Sons, 2002) and “Childhood and Adolescent Overweight: A Health Professional's Guide To Identification, Treatment, and Prevention” (American Dietetic Association, 2003).
Additionally, Shield has authored more than 500 articles for consumer magazines and professional journals such as: The Chicago Tribune, Ladies' Home Journal, Healthy Kids, American Baby, Shape Magazine's Fit Pregnancy, American Health, Weight Watchers Magazine, Reader's Digest, Restaurant's and Institutions and the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. She also has written several online articles and authored columns such as Ask the Nutritionist for Disney and Ask the Nutritionist for Beansprout.net. Shield provides nutrition analysis for the Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun. In 1998 she was selected "Outstanding Dietitian of the Year" by both the Illinois Dietetic Association and the Chicago Dietetic Association.
Jodie Shield lives in the Chicago area with her husband and three children, Jennifer, J.J., and Michael.
For great tips from Jodie to help get children excited about eating and loving vegetables, click here. And for Jodie’s tips for the whole family, click here.
For fun tips to help kids eat more veggies as they head back to school, click here
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Jeanne Pinsof Nolan | Jodie Shield
About Jeanne Pinsof Nolan:
In her current role as project manager for Chicago’s Green City Market, she is responsible for designing and implementing The Edible Gardens, a 5,000 square foot vegetable garden for children at Lincoln Park Zoo. She is also the founder of “The Organic Gardener Ltd”, focusing on helping people to have fun successfully growing organic vegetables. She has helped more than 150 Chicago-area families create and maintain organic vegetable gardens and works extensively with schools and restaurants.
She began her career with an apprenticeship in organic vegetable gardening and farming in the high desert of California in 1987. For the next 17 years, she lived on three different organic farms located in Southern California, Austin and Asheville, N.C. During that time, she completed her apprenticeship and went on to manage the gardening operation, teaching her craft to both children and adults.
Nolan has been featured in Travel and Leisure, Food and Wine and North Shore Weekly and on ABC7 Chicago. Recently, she was included in the April issue of Shape for the “2009 Green Living Awards."
Jeanne Pinsof Nolan has created a curriculum of handouts designed to cover the basics of planting a home and/or community vegetable garden. To view and download them, click here.
About Jodie Shield:
Jodie Shield, registered dietitian, has been a consultant and spokesperson in the field of nutrition for more than two decades. A former national media spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association (1989-1995), she has worked extensively with the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and taught nutrition and medical dietetics at the University of Illinois. Currently she is a complemental faculty member of the College of Health Sciences in the Department of Clinical Nutrition at Rush University in Chicago.
Shield is Senior Partner at JM & Associates, Inc., a nutrition communications firm. She has developed numerous consumer education materials and programs, participated in new product ideation sessions, evaluated recipe contests and provided strategic counsel to a roster of blue chip clients. Shield is co-author of the “American Dietetic Association's Guide to Healthy Eating For Kids” (John Wiley and Sons, 2002) and “Childhood and Adolescent Overweight: A Health Professional's Guide To Identification, Treatment, and Prevention” (American Dietetic Association, 2003).
Additionally, Shield has authored more than 500 articles for consumer magazines and professional journals such as: The Chicago Tribune, Ladies' Home Journal, Healthy Kids, American Baby, Shape Magazine's Fit Pregnancy, American Health, Weight Watchers Magazine, Reader's Digest, Restaurant's and Institutions and the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. She also has written several online articles and authored columns such as Ask the Nutritionist for Disney and Ask the Nutritionist for Beansprout.net. Shield provides nutrition analysis for the Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun. In 1998 she was selected "Outstanding Dietitian of the Year" by both the Illinois Dietetic Association and the Chicago Dietetic Association.
Jodie Shield lives in the Chicago area with her husband and three children, Jennifer, J.J., and Michael.
For great tips from Jodie to help get children excited about eating and loving vegetables, click here. And for Jodie’s tips for the whole family, click here.
For fun tips to help kids eat more veggies as they head back to school, click here
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