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Thursday, December 2 • 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Farmers for Climate Solutions - Farmer leadership in climate friendly practices

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The EFAO is a founding member of Farmers for Climate Solutions, a coalition of Canadian farm organizations that advocates for better climate politics in agriculture. In the year and a half since its inception, FCS has grown to include 23 member organizations that together represent over 20,000 farmers and ranchers, and has achieved major changes in Canadian agricultural policy. Meet four farmers who have been deeply involved in the coalition, and hear how farmers from diverse backgrounds can come together to influence governments and spread climate-friendly practices across the country.
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avatar for Arzeena Hamir

Arzeena Hamir

Arzeena Hamir earned her Bachelor’s degree in Crop Science from the University of Guelph and a Master’s in Sustainable Agriculture from the University of London, England. She worked as a CUSO volunteer in Thailand and as a researcher in Jamaica, India, and Bangladesh. She was... Read More →
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Karen Klassen

Manitoba Organic Alliance
Karen Klassen farms with her dad on their family farm in Manitou, southern Manitoba. She is also a nutrition scientist, experimental gardener and travel enthusiast, and has spent most of her adulthood living outside of Canada. She and her dad are transitioning their farm to regenerative... Read More →
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Stuart Oke

Rooted Oak Farm
Stuart Oke is a first-generation farmer who lives and works in North Augusta, Ontario. Alongside his partner Nikki, he runs Rooted Oak farm, a vegetable and cut flower farm. Together they grow and sell their farm products at farmers markets, through their summer and winter CSA programs... Read More →
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Brent Preston

The New Farm
Brent Preston and his wife Gillian Flies own and operate The New Farm, a certified organic vegetable operation near Creemore, Ontario. When they established the farm in 2007, Brent and Gillian grew a wide variety of vegetables that they sold in the Creemore Farmers’ Market, and... Read More →

Thursday December 2, 2021 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Online over Zoom
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