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 Region and Perth County. Lara started working at Fertile Ground Farm as the team lead in 2019 and has been the field manager for the past 2 seasons. Fertile Ground is a small, organic farm that produces vegetables and eggs for a 350-member CSA as well as a few wholesale partners. During the winter, she independently runs an annual 100-member Winter CSA as well as a Spring Greens program from Fertile Ground with the goal of continuing access to local veggies through the cold months.