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Employee Perspectives on Thriving Work Environments
Speakers
Footprint Farm
Taylor Mendell is a farmer, mother, and efficiency nerd. She and her husband run Footprint Farm in Starksboro Vermont, USA. They grown vegetables for a CSA, local restaurants, caterers, and a food co-op. Taylor also shares business planning, decision making, goal setting, and efficiency...
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Farmer, Feel Free Farm
Sunil is a mixed race settler farmer of Punjabi and Jewish decent living and growing on the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas. Sunil works part time as a field hand and operator at Manorun Organic Farm, and runs his own market...
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Nith Valley Organics
Jason is the assistant manager and farmer at Nith Valley Organics. Father, grateful and always wanting to learn more!
Humble Bee
Brian Tammi is a first generation farmer from Hamilton, ON. He spent the last 15 years working in agriculture and focuses on soil health and organic production of fruit and vegetable crops. He entered agriculture as a seasonal labourer and soon committed to a career in farming. After...
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Field Manager, Fertile Ground Farm
Lara is inspired by the power of our relationship to food for creating healthy communities. Since 2013, she's worked in a diversity of environments where people and food connect: on farms, food policy councils, in community gardens, and with local food producers and retailers in Waterloo...
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