A Climate of Crisis

Series 2

Throughout the eight-episode arc series, host Maddie Marmor, along with producers and co-hosts Stuart Oke and Aliyah Fraser, will explain how the climate crisis and farm crisis interact, inform, and influence one another.

The team centres their shared, lived experience of farming during a crisis on many of the conversations with guests, including activists, policy advocates, and, of course, other farmers, farmworkers, seed keepers, and food providers, as they suss out how to respond to both crises with care, responsibility, and informed food sovereignty action.

Farmers are making real decisions to mitigate, adapt and transform in this climate of crisis, and they need our support and our cheer as they struggle, often everyday, to do so.

This series is for them.

Tornadic Cell over Grassy Field in Canadian Prairies
Tornadic Cell over Grassy Field in Canadian Prairies

Episodes

Episode 1: A Climate of Crisis

Join the podcast crew and guest and WWFU alum Ayla Fenton as they introduce some of the core themes of the series and why it...
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Episode 2: Omissions About Emissions

Cutting green-house emissions - one of the most dominant narratives about climate change. Policy focuses on them, global agreements target them and often proposed solutions...
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Episode 3: Cold Myths, Hot Takes

Uncover the truths behind the big rallying cries of the current climate moment - technological savourism, regenerative ag, the sanctity of plant-based diets, you get...
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Episode 4: How Do We Use Our Land?

How do we use our land - a question that invites and warns us to take a critical look at the decisions we are making...
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Episode 5: Climate Anxiety: Care in Crisis

Toby Malloy and Maddie Marmor discuss how we are all connected to agriculture in some way through the inherent human instinct to share something common.
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Episode 6: Cultivating Land-Based Relationships

Aliyah Fraser sits down with David Skene of Wisahkotewinowak to reflect on how a deeper relationship to the land around us would positively impact our...
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Episode 7: On Farm Solutions and Changing How we Farm

What does using your farm as a tool to fight the climate crisis actually look like? Co-host Stuart Oke sits down with four farmers from...
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Episode 8: The Responsibility To Hope

Join Aliyah, Stuart and Maddie one last time to reflect on the conversations, takeaways, and throughlines of the past seven episodes. The concluding thought of...
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Production Team

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Aliyah Fraser

Aliyah is a Kitchener-based farmer who owns and operates a quarter acre market garden called Lucky Bug Farm on rented land in Waterloo Region where she grows a variety of produce for a small CSA program. The farm operates within the Haldimand Tract in Kitchener, Ontario and is on the traditional territory of the Mississauga, Anishnabeg, Attiwonderonk (neutral) and Haudenoshaunee peoples. She imagines a food system where more people have access to ecologically grown food, where there is less waste and where there’s a better understanding of the labour it takes to get food from the farm to the table. Aliyah also has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies in Urban planning from the University of Waterloo. She believes that food and housing are human rights. She lives in Kitchener, Ontario with her partner Thomas and cat Frankie.

luckybugfarm.com | @luckybugfarm

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Kate Garvie

Kate founded Heartbeet Farm in 2018 after spending four years working on organic vegetable farms across Ontario. She first learned about ecological agriculture at Trent University during her undergraduate degree. After completing a Master’s of Environmental Studies, Kate returned to farming with a better understanding of the connections between food sovereignty, indigenous solidarity and climate justice. She is passionate about building a local food system that is environmentally sound and socially just.

Heartbeet Farm | IG: @heartbeet_farm

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Madeline (Maddie) Marmor

Maddie is a landless farmer born in downtown Toronto. She has been farming for the past 8 years on farms throughout Ontario and has grown food on the current and traditional lands of the Houdensaunee, Anishinabewaki, Attiwonderonk, Mississauga, Odawa, Wendake-Nionwentsïo, Petun, Saugeene – Ojibiway nations. Over the years she has come to recognize the privilege and political significance of farming on stolen land, knowledge which has informed her dedication to food sovereignty and agroecology. She is an active member of the National Farmers Union, sits on the North American Nyéléni Coordination and accompanies systems change in food spaces as an adult education facilitator. 

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Stuart Oke

Stuart is a young farmer from Eastern Ontario who, alongside his partner Nikki, owns and operates Rooted Oak Farm, a 12 acre organic vegetable and cut flower farm. After years of renting land Rooted Oak in 2020 relocated to Eastern Ontario, and the traditional territory of the Anishinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudensaunee and Oneida Peoples. In addition to loving food and taking pride in growing food that sustains people, the farm was founded on the idea that farming is a political act, one capable of creating great change.

www.rootedoak.ca | @rootedoakfarm