Amy Goldman Fowler 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 have been called "perhaps the world's premier vegetable gardener" by Gregory Long, president of The New York Botanical Garden.
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. These were illustrated by the photographer Victor Schrager. Melons for the Passionate Grower 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 and the International Association of Culinary Professionals award for Best Design. The Compleat Squash: A Passionate Grower's Guide To Pumpkins, Squashes and Gourds 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 is illustrated by daguerreotypist Jerry Spagnoli. The book has over 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,Elle Décor,Harper's Bazaar,The Financial Times, The Daily Beast, The East Hampton Star, and Town and Country.In August 2016 it won the Association for Garden Communicators ’s Silver Medal in the Book Category. It also won two distinctions at the October 2016 New York Book Show : Best in Special Trade and Best in Special Trade/Photography. Heirloom Harvest was honored in 2016 by the British Book Awards as best book in the Lifestyle Illustrated category. The Melon, her fifth book, has been reviewed in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Goldman's writing appears in such publications as Martha Stewart Living, The New York Times, Organic Connections, and Organic Gardening. She has been profiled by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Sun and several other publications including Organic Style and Horticulture magazine. In addition, Goldman has appeared on Martha Stewart Living TV and PBS' The Victory Garden.
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. Fowler is a vice chairman of the New York Botanical Garden 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. 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.
Personal life
On April 28, 2012, Goldman married Cary Fowler at the terrace on top of the Arsenal in Central Park.
