Jessie MacInnis

Jessie is a small-scale, first generation agroecological farmer and scholar-activist based in unceded and unsurrendered Mi’kmaq territory (aka Nova Scotia), Canada. Agroecology is a foundational part of their farm: from the practices they engage (cover crops, soil-health building, low-tillage, and crop and non-crop biodiversity) on the farm, to the ways in which they seek and share knowledge horizontally with other growers, to relationships they build with their community through solidarity approaches to food accessibility. Jessie is currently the Youth President of the National Farmers Union of Canada and has been extensively involved with La Via Campesina regionally and internationally for a number of years. She recently graduated from the first cohort of the Master of Human Rights (MHR) program at the University of Manitoba.