Adjunct Faculty and Master Gardener
Host, Tuesdays with Toni on Fox29 and The Goal is to Become a Gardener on SJMagMedia
Toni Farmer is an adjunct professor at both the University of Pennsylvania and Rowan University in the department of Earth and Environmental Science. At Penn, she teaches Regenerative Agriculture and Integrated Pest Management and at Rowan she teaches The Future of Food, a class about the impact of climate change on agriculture. She holds a Master of Environmental Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master Gardener certification from Rutgers. She now teaches content to the new Camden County Certified Gardener Program. She has been a passionate backyard gardener for almost 30 years—and if you can grow it in South Jersey soil, she has grown it! She runs Toni Farmer’s Garden, a website and social media-based business that teaches citizens to grow their own food organically, sustainably, and abundantly.
Toni speaks frequently to garden and horticulture clubs and in the summer, she provides the garden video content for SJ Magazine, winning “best of” for 2021. She appears every Tuesday on Fox29 Philadelphia at 3:30 p.m. helping tri-state regional viewers with garden tips. Toni has served as a council member of the Sustainable Moorestown Committee and Moorestown Environmental Action Committee. Her podcast, offering a deep dive into issues around agriculture and our food system, launched in October 2025 and can be found on Spotify and Apple. Her website is tonifarmersgarden.com where soon schools and nonprofits will be able to access content to start a garden program based on her capstone from the MES program.
Toni’s hope is to teach as many people as possible how to grow their own food: in community gardens, schoolyards, and backyards. Climate change is an increasing threat to agriculture and our food supply. Learning to grow food is a critical tool for healthy food access. You can find her on Instagram and Facebook as Toni Farmers Garden.
