The Market Company Founder: Claire Tomlin

Master Gardener: Atlanta Botanical Garden, 1986

Started Miami Beach Herb Society, 1995

Founder and Executive Director, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 1997

Founder, Miami Beach Garden Conservancy, 1997

Created “the Pleasure of Herbs” program and taught workshops on making herb vinegars at Miami Beach Botanical Garden and South Pointe Elementary School

Received grant to bring herbalist to Miami Beach Botanical Garden

Coordinated Sister Cities International Exchange Program, 2000
150 Japanese artists traveled to Miami Beach

Coordinated visits and exhibitions by French artists in Miami Beach, 2003 - 2009 (Michel Billardon & Isabelle Hirschi)

Attended Cooking School, Louviers Farm, Normandy, France, 2004 & 2006

Coordinated visit by chef/author/lecturer Susan Hermann Loomis Miami Beach Botanical Garden and Books & Books, 2006

Taught composting and vegetable gardening at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden and District XII Garden Clubs.

Taught herb growing and herb use classes at The Kitchen Hearth, Aventura Mall, and Arianna’s Cooking School (South Miami)

Created Taste of the Garden, a fundraiser for the Miami Beach Botanical Garden

Taught horticulture classes at Fairchild Tropical Garden and the Log Cabin.
Installed raised garden beds in over 40 South Florida gardens, 2008-2010

Education Director, The Education Fund, 2007 - 2008; 2009 – 2010 “Plant A Thousand Gardens”

Collaborative Nutrition Initiative (60 schools) Advisory Board, Miami Slow Food Movement

Member, Les Dames Escoffier

Awarded a Health Foundation of South Florida Grant Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Programs (SNAP) implemented at Jackson Foundation Green Market

Official Miami Delegate to Terra Madre International Conference Torino Italy, October 2010

To learn more about Claire Tomlin and The Market Company call 305.531.0038 or e-mail claire@themarketcompany.org.