If you enjoy herbs and organic gardening, you'll want to meet Ann McCormick, the Herb 'n Cowgirl. A life-long gardener, she has devoted her time since 1998 to writing and speaking about her favorite subject. Ann contributes to regional and national home and garden and life-style magazines, including Organic Gardening, Country Woman, Gardening How-To, and Neil Sperry’s Gardens. She is a columnist for the Herb Quarterly, and writes a twice-monthly email newsletter, “Seasonal Living.” The Herb 'n Cowgirl also shares her love of herbs and her gardening techniques as a speaker and media guest.

Ann began her interest in gardening and cooking while growing up in rural Southern California, about 50 miles east of Los Angeles. On her family’s three acres, she learned to irrigate the orchard, plow the alfalfa, shovel the cow manure, and string barbed wire. Her father worked for the City of Riverside Parks and Recreation Department during the week and on weekends managed the pasture and fruit orchard. Her mom grew vegetables and flowers and helped Ann to learn the basics of gardening and cooking. She also had her first public triumph winning a speech contest while a member of the local 4-H club. Here her proud dad looks on in shock.

After getting a bachelors degree in mathematics from UCLA, Ann joined Hughes Aircraft in 1976 and started on a long career programming and managing computers used in aerospace manufacturing. Along the way she married Gene McCormick (and he's still the one for her), a native of New Jersey and reluctant son of Louisiana. The aerospace business was a lot of fun but the call of her organic roots couldn’t be denied forever. As soon as she and her husband bought their first home, it was herbs , herbs, and more herbs!

Being an incurable optimist, she immediately started "Creative Seasoning Network," a website on cooking and gardening with herbs while she was still in the throes of completing an MBa at Rider University in New Jersey. In 1998 Ann left her career in aerospace and moved with her family to Texas to take advantage of the dot-com boom of the 90's and pursue her interest in herbs. She describes this as " part of my well-planned mid-life crisis." The website was well received by the surfing public but, alas, never made money. In 2000 she retired Creative Seasoning Network as a website and turned her attention to writing and speaking.

A committed Christian, Ann lives in Fort Worth with her husband Gene, mother Helen Heck, and three dogs (Daisy, Elsa, and Ferriz). She is an active member of the Greater Fort Worth Herb Society and the Garden Writer's Association.