About the Grow To Eat Authors
The authors behind the advice on Grow To Eat are Annika Runnerstam and Christin Hanssen, the two trained gardeners behind the platform. Both are engineers turned gardeners, trained in organic growing and entrepreneurship at Skillebyholm in Sweden. They founded Grow To Eat (Grow your own Nordic AB) to bring reliable, trustworthy growing advice into one place — reducing the complexity and lowering the threshold for anyone who wants to start growing their own food.
Annika Runnerstam
Annika Runnerstam is co-founder of Grow To Eat (Grow your own Nordic AB) and one of the people behind the Swedish growing handbook Odla ätbart. After many years as an engineer, she trained as a gardener at Skillebyholm with a focus on organic growing and has more than 20 years of hands-on experience growing her own food, as well as experience from urban farms in Sweden and abroad. She also runs Odlagrönt Stockholm, offering gardening services and courses on soil health, kitchen-garden planning, crop rotation, and companion planting, with a focus on sustainable growing.
Christin Hanssen
Christin Hanssen is co-founder and CEO of Grow To Eat (Grow your own Nordic AB) and one of the people behind the Swedish growing handbook Odla ätbart. Originally an engineer, she retrained as a gardener at Skillebyholm with a focus on organic growing and entrepreneurship. She has years of hands-on experience as a home grower and on professional farms in Sweden and abroad, and advises Axfoundation’s organic kitchen garden at Torsåker.