Edible South Florida

Let’s Honor South Florida Women Today and Every Day

• Julia Tuttle, the mother of Miami. See this sculpture in downtown Miami's Bayfront Park.

• Margie Pikarsky, of Bee Heaven Farm, started one of the first CSAs and trained many of young farmers in South Florida

• Thi Squire heads up Baptist Health's Grow2Heal garden program

• Martina Gonzalez operates Aloha Redland Farm with Alicia del Aguila

• One of Miami-Dade's first farmers, Gabriele Marewski today tours the world by bike and shares her stories on gabrieleonthego.com

• Olivia is a second-generation farmer at Fullei Fresh, a leading sprouts farm

• Laura Sutton of Blue Horizon Farm grows fruit, veggies, flowers and herbs in the Redland

• Adena Ellenby and her family operate LNB Groves, a longtime tropical fruit farm in the Redland

• Ms. Shirley volunteers every Saturday at the Urban Oasis Project booth at Legion Park

• Tien Hung shows followers how to grow tropical produce in her Kendall front and backyard on her website and social media, Delectableday.com

• Tiffany Noe and Muriel Olivares started Little River Cooperative, today a farming project in the Redland selling plant starts and building gardens

• Karla Dascal, pictured on the right at Paradise Farms, grows organic produce at Paradise Farms in the Redland

• Longtime PR guru Lisa Palley volunteers weekly at Urban Oasis Project at Legion Park every Saturday

• Meg Daly in behind The Underline, a 10-mile linear park, urban trail and public art destination, in the words in Miami-Dade County

• Ellen Bowen started the South Florida branch of the national nonprofit Food Rescue US in response to seeing firsthand food waste

• Longtime community advocate Valencia "Vee" Gunder serves South Florida through the nonproft The Smile Trust

• Cristina Favretto, who heads Special Collections at the University of Miami libraries, co-founded the inaugural Tropic Bound artists Book Fair

• Vanessa Navarro Maza is folklife curator at HistoryMiami, overseeing events like CultureFest 305

• Christine Rupp is executive director of Dade Heritage Trust working to preserve Greater Miami’s architectural, environmental and cultural heritage

• Lucia Meneses leads Dade Heritage Trust's Baking in Historic Places program

• Rebecca Peterson is Vizcaya's Community Programs Manager

• Cynthia Seymour is the executive director of the Coconut Grove Business Improvement District

• Eleanor Hoh of the longtime Wokstar cooking classes also plans food and cultural events

• Author Ellen Kanner has been writing about the intersection of food, wellness and sustainability for more than 20 years

• Vanessa Trujillo is director of Fruit and Spice Park; Pat Mackin is a food influencer, @patmackincoconutgrove; Heather Moehling of Robert Is Here is an alumna of the Wedgworth Leadership Institute for Agriculture and Natural Resources

• James Beard Award nominated chef Val Chang of Itamae and her upcoming restaurant, Matys, and Karla Hoyos, owner of upcoming Tacotomia and participant in World Central Kitchen

• Paula Da Silva is director of Culinary and Beverage at The Ritz-Carlton, Fort Lauderdale

• Ambrely Ouimette of Sushi | Bar is one of the country’s only female omakase chefs. Photo: Liam Brown

• James Beard Award-winning chef Michelle Bernstein of Cafe La Trova and La Cañita is opening Sra. Martinez in Coral Gables and two concepts at the new Julia & Henry food hall

• Longtime pastry chef Cindy Kruse operates CindyLou’s Cookies in Little River

• Suzy Batlle founded Azucar Ice Cream in Little Havana and has since opened in Dallas and Pinecrest

• Courtney Leon created cookies that are organic, gluten-free, vegan, low-glycemic

• Pamela Wasabi’s bakery specializes in making delicious natural vegan, and gluten-free cakes, cookies, desserts, and treats

• Corinne Mariposa of Seed Share Miami sets up seed-sharing booths at markets and events and talks about propagation

• Michelle Gaber and Alison Burgos launched the annual SEED Food and Wine festival

• JennyLee Molina started 305 Day and does PR for SEED and other events

• Our brand ambassador Pat Mackin, who also reports on restaurants and events in Coconut Grove

• Melissa Guzman created The Caribe Vegan, a food truck selling her plant-based foods

• Cristina Ivory’s Angry Booch makes kombucha and ferments – kraut, pikliz, kimchi, sriracha, curtido, fermented mango chutney – for farmers markets and her taproom

• Alexandra Cava Palomino operates super-local Mima Market in Miami Shores with her husband Raul Parra Orizondo

• Lynn Bell, left, is behind the Square Grouper restaurants in Islamorada and Cudjoe Key and the new Morning Joint coffee shop