About the Herb 'n Cowgirl
Ann McCormick is an enthusiastic herb garden writer and speaker. Ann has contributed to various magazines, written a newspaper column, and for five years published a twice-monthly ezine called "Seasonal Notes." Ann is a guest speaker at herbal conferences and numerous local clubs and organizations and now as a talk show host on KRWD 100.7 FM.
 Since 2000, Ann has written over 200 magazine and newspaper articles and columns. Her published credits include Herb Quarterly, Organic Garden, Garden Compass, Texas Gardener, Mature Living, Gardening How-To and other home and lifestyle magazines. In between writing, she has spoken at numerous garden events and meetings in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and beyond.
Ann began her interest in gardening and cooking while growing up in rural Southern California. On her family’s three acres, she learned to irrigate the orchard, plow the alfalfa, shovel the cow manure, and string barbed wire. Dad managed the pasture and the 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 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.
Her most recent venture is a radio program called Seasonal Living, broadcast Saturdays on KWRD in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The show is off the air at present but will resume broadcasting January 3, 2009.
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.
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