Amy Goldman Fowler

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Amy Goldman Fowler
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Goldman at the 2010 Heirloom Tomato Festival
Born1954 (age 69–70)
NationalityAmerican
Spouse Cary Fowler (m. 2012)
Parent(s) Sol Goldman (1917–1987)
Lillian Schuman Goldman (1922–2002)
Family Allan H. Goldman (brother)
Diane Goldman Kemper (sister)
Jane Goldman (sister)
Lloyd Goldman (cousin)
Website amygoldmanfowler.com

Amy Goldman Fowler (born 1954) is an American billionaire heiress, gardener, author, artist, philanthropist, and advocate for seed saving and heirloom fruits and vegetables. She is one of the foremost heirloom plant conservationists in the US. Goldman has been called "perhaps the world's premier vegetable gardener" by Gregory Long, president emeritus of The New York Botanical Garden.

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Early life and education

Fowler is the daughter of Lillian (née Schuman) and Sol Goldman. [1] [2] She has three siblings: Allan H. Goldman, Diane Goldman Kemper, and Jane Goldman. [3] Her father was the largest non-institutional real estate investor in New York City in the 1980s, owning nearly 1900 commercial and residential properties. [3] Her siblings, Allan Goldman and Jane Goldman manage the remaining real estate assets via the firm Solil Management. [4] Her cousin, Lloyd Goldman, is a real-estate investor in New York City. [5]

Goldman earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Barnard College (1976), a master's in developmental psychology from Columbia University's Teachers College (1978), and a doctorate in clinical psychology (PhD) from Oklahoma State University in 1984.

Career

Goldman is the author of five books. Her first three and her current release, The Melon, won American Horticultural Society Book of the Year awards. [6] These were illustrated by the photographer Victor Schrager.

Melons for the Passionate Grower (Artisan, 2002) was nominated for several other awards including: The Garden Writers Association of America 2003 Garden Globe Award of Achievement, various Bookbinder's Awards for design and production, a James Beard Foundation Award (Reference Books category) and the International Association of Culinary Professionals award for Best Design.

The Compleat Squash: A Passionate Grower's Guide To Pumpkins, Squashes and Gourds (Artisan, 2004) was a 2005 American Horticultural Society Book Award-winner, and won a bronze award of achievement from The Garden Writers Association of America.

The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table – Recipes, Portraits and History of the World's Most Beautiful Fruit was published by Bloomsbury in 2008. It was a recipient of the American Horticultural Society's 2009 Book Award.

Heirloom Harvest: Modern Daguerreotypes of Historic Garden Treasures (Bloomsbury, 2015) is illustrated by daguerreotypist Jerry Spagnoli. The book has more than 175 photographs of fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs, and berries grown by Goldman on her 200-acre Hudson Valley farmstead. Goldman's essay, "Fruits of the Earth", describes her 25-year collaboration with the land. Heirloom Harvest has appeared in The Washington Post , [7] Elle Décor, [8] Harper's Bazaar , The Financial Times , [9] The Daily Beast , [10] The East Hampton Star , [11] and Town and Country. [12] In August 2016 it won the Association for Garden Communicators (GWA)'s Silver Medal in the Book Category. [13] It also won two distinctions at the October 2016 New York Book Show (Book Industry Guild of New York): Best in Special Trade (Art Books) and Best in Special Trade/Photography. [14] Heirloom Harvest was honored in 2016 by the British Book Awards as best book in the Lifestyle Illustrated category. [15]

The Melon (City Point Press, 2019), her fifth book, was reviewed in The New York Times [16] and The Washington Post. [17]

Goldman's writing appears in such publications as Martha Stewart Living, [18] The New York Times, [19] Organic Connections, [20] and Organic Gardening. [21]

She has been profiled by The New York Times, [22] The Washington Post, [23] The New York Sun [24] and several other publications including Organic Style [25] and Horticulture magazine. [26] In addition, Goldman has appeared on Martha Stewart Living TV [27] and PBS' The Victory Garden. [28]

Goldman received the 2021 Florens DeBevoise Medal awarded by The Garden Club of America for distinguished achievement in the heirloom seed and local food movement. [29]

GardenComm awarded the 2020 Silver Medal of Achievement to The Melon in the Book: General Readership category of Writing. [30]

Affiliations

Fowler is a trustee of both the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust and the Amy P. Goldman Foundation. Goldman once served as executive director of the Sol Goldman Charitable Trust of New York City.[ citation needed ]

Fowler is a former vice chairman of the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) Board. She was previously a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York Restoration Project.

In September 2014, Fowler was elected chairman of the Center for Jewish History, a position she held until December 2016. [31] [32]

Goldman served on the board of directors of Seed Savers Exchange for more than ten years, half of that time as chair, and is now a special advisor to the board. [33]

Personal life

On April 28, 2012, Goldman married Cary Fowler at the terrace on top of the Arsenal in Central Park. [34]

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  2. ↑ "Paid Notice: Deaths GOLDMAN, LILLIAN". The New York Times. August 22, 2002.
  3. 1 2 "Sol Goldman, Major Real-Estate Investor, Dies". The New York Times. October 19, 1987.
  4. ↑ The Real Deal: "Sol Goldman’s $6B portfolio in play, as children accelerate dealmaking" By Adam Pincus April 01, 2013
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  8. ↑ "Met Home's Staff Summer Must-Reads". Elle Décor. July 21, 2009. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  9. ↑ Wilson, Matthew (November 26, 2015). "Awash with squash: philanthropist Amy Goldman's New York garden". Financial Times. ISSN   0307-1766 . Retrieved December 7, 2015.(subscription required)
  10. ↑ Boot, William (November 26, 2015). "A Hipster Heirloom Harvest (PHOTOS)". The Daily Beast. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
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  16. ↑ "But Does It Tell You When a Melon Is Ripe?". The New York Times. September 16, 2019.
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  21. ↑ Amy P. Goldman, "Luscious Heirloom Watermelons for the American Gardener", Organic Gardening. Archived October 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
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  24. ↑ "Most Treasured Heirlooms", The New York Sun , October 31, 2007. http://www.nysun.com/food-drink/most-treasured-heirlooms/65600
  25. ↑ "Paradise Regained", Organic Style, March 1, 2004. "Rare Forms by Amy Goldman". Archived from the original on March 3, 2007. Retrieved July 16, 2008.
  26. ↑ Thyme for a Change; Horticulture, March 2007. http://www.hortmag.com/article/Thyme_For_A_Change
  27. ↑ Appearance on Martha Stewart Living. "Rare Forms by Amy Goldman". Archived from the original on March 5, 2007. Retrieved July 16, 2008.
  28. ↑ Appearance on The Victory Garden . "Rare Forms by Amy Goldman". Archived from the original on March 5, 2007. Retrieved July 16, 2008.
  29. ↑ "2021 National GCA Medalists Announced". www.gcamerica.org. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  30. ↑ "Announcing the 2020 GardenComm Gold and Silver Award Winners". gardencomm.org. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
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  32. ↑ "Joel Levy named president and CEO of Center for Jewish History". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. September 17, 2014.
  33. ↑ "Illinois gardener to lead Seed Savers Exchange board". See Savers Exchange. July 25, 2012.
  34. ↑ Hartocollis, Anemona (May 11, 2012). "Amy Goldman and Cary Fowler". The New York Times . Archived from the original on January 31, 2013.
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