Nancy Fuller was born on March 27, 1949, in Claverack, New York. She grew up on a farm in Columbia County, where her grandmother taught her the foundations of hearty, seasonal cooking. After graduating high school in 1967, she briefly attended Santa Ana College in California before returning to New York to pursue catering and farming full-time. Her deep roots in Hudson Valley farm life would eventually become the foundation of her entire television career.

Fuller’s path to television began after she met David Ginsberg at the Columbia Golf and Country Club, where her catering business operated. She married him in 1997 and became co-owner of Ginsberg’s Foods, a multimillion-dollar foodservice distributor. A television production company later sought her out as an authentic farm-based cooking personality, which led to her hosting Farmhouse Rules on Food Network in 2013.

Fuller later expanded her Food Network presence significantly. She serves as a judge on Holiday Baking Championship, Spring Baking Championship, and Clash of the Grandmas. She also authored the cookbook Farmhouse Rules: Simple, Seasonal Meals for the Whole Family (Hachette, 2015). As of 2026, she continues serving as a judge on the network’s baking competition series.