Katherine grew up in Mi’kma’ki. From 2019-2020, she interviewed grain and oilseed farmers across Alberta for her MA research into the financialization of farmland. She has worked as a farm worker in Alaska and around Vancouver, and is currently farming on unceded Musqueam territory as UBC Farm’s Practicum Field Coordinator. She previously worked for the…

Kit is a 3rd generation white settler in the Niagara region of Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory. As someone with citizenship status, they are united with their migrant, refugee, and undocumented neighbours to win full and permanent immigration status for all. Kit is a farmworker organizer with Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, which serves as secretariat…

Cheyenne is the director of Sundance Harvest, a year round urban farm growing flowers, herbs, mushrooms, and veg in Toronto. Cheyenne started Sundance Harvest from nothing but stubbornness, a nurturing love of the land and a drive to see true equity in agriculture. She sits on the Ontario board of the National Farmers Union as…

Arzeena and her husband Neil own Amara Farm, a 26-acre certified organic farm in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. She is a local politician and was a co-chair of the Farmers for Climate Solutions Policy Task Force. Arzeena is committed to climate action on her own diversified farm and in ensuring that farmers’ concerns…

Ana is a National Farmers Union national board member for Region 5 (Manitoba), and grew up on her family farm located on Treaty 2 Territory on the Eastern slopes of Duck Mountain. She is a descendant of Ukrainian settlers who established themselves on this same farm in 1904. Her ancestors grew buckwheat and wheat in…

Tiffany is of Secwepemc and European descent. With Fourth Sister Farm she grows rare varieties of vegetables, fruits and other plants that are traditional to both Secwepemc and other Indigenous peoples. The goal of the farm is to connect with other seed and land stewards, and encourage community members to strive for stronger food security…

Darrin is Director of Climate Crisis Policy and Action for Canada’s National Farmers Union.  He is a former farmer and the author of the 2019 report Tackling the Farm Crisis and the Climate Crisis and the 2019 book Civilization Critical: Energy, Food, Nature, and the Future.  His research, writing, and educational pursuits over the past…

Thorsten Arnold is an environmental engineer and earth system scientist who co-owns Persephone Market Garden with his wife Kristine Hammel. His academic training has focused on topics ranging from watershed science and agricultural economics to greenhouse gas forcing and the role of regional land use and agriculture. Thorsten describes himself as an ecological food and…

Toby is a farmer living on Treaty 7 land in southern Alberta. She is also a therapist working in rural mental health. Toby is trained in Somatic Experiencing and is especially interested in how, as humans, as farmers, we are embodying, experiencing and navigating the farm and climate crisis.

Hannah is a tenant farmer on Sinixt, Ktunaxa, and Syilx land in Harrop, BC. She is determined to grow food using agroecological methods with and for community as a response to the many intersecting crises of our time. Her farming practices, including her ways of relating to land as a guest and a steward with…