Click here to contact Ellen
as a speaker for
your garden club,
conference or special event.
Rates range from:
$250. - $500.
Per Diem, plus travel.


Ellen Ecker Ogden co-founded The Cook's Garden seed catalog, and is a freelance food and garden writer, garden designer and cookbook author. Ellen trained with Marcella Hazen in Venice, Italy and Darina Allen at Ballymaloe School in Ireland.

Articles and features about Ellen's gardens have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Sunday Globe, Eating Well Magazine, Vermont Life, Vermont Magazine, Vermont Sunday Magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, Organic Gardening, Martha Stewart Living, and Horticulture.

Media trained with the Lisa Ekus Group, Ellen has appeared on PBS-Victory Garden, HGTV- TV and as a speaker at the Cincinnati Flower Show, The Boston Flower Show and the Vermont Flower Show, among others.

Ellen's professional affiliations include:

Vermont Cheese Council
American Cheese Society
Les Dames D'Escoffier
Northeast Organic Farmers Assoc
Slow Food, USA
Vermont Fresh Network
Garden Writers Association
Chefs Collaborative

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for fresh ideas or to book an event!