Ari Westhaver is a farmworker based in the Fraser Valley on unceded Kwantlen territory where they grow organic mixed vegetables on a cooperative farm. Ari has been farming for 6 seasons and previously taught in a new farmer training program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Ari is deeply passionate about labour justice and farmland access, two…

Dave Skene is an urban Métis farmer, youth worker and the co-Executive Director for White Owl Native Ancestry Association, where he focuses on Land-based education. In 2015 Dave, along with several other Indigenous community members, started exploring how they could be involved in Indigenous food sovereignty in the Waterloo Wellington region. These discussions led to…

Brenda farms with her husband Skyler Radojkovic, and their daughter Emma at Black Sheep Farm, where they grow organically and raise sheep on pasture for lamb meat, fibre, and tanned lambskins. The farm was started by Brenda in 2009, who is a Canadian-born Chinese woman, who left a financial career in downtown Toronto to start…

Manish owns and operates Gaia Organics, an organic seed company based in the Ottawa area. Gaia Organics’ broad vision is to serve Canadian organic farmers by providing a diversity of Canadian organically grown seeds and to build an interconnected network among farmers.

Julia operates Blue Sky Ranch, located just south-west of Merritt in the beautiful rolling foothills of the Coquihalla mountain range. The 21 acre farm is home to pastured cattle and Red Wattle Pigs.