Spearheading the Dialogue in Food Systems Leadership
with Brenda Schoepp
Our Vision
We will engage with you in diverse conversations around agriculture and food leadership. We will empower you to embrace your talents and encourage you to create self-directed, resilient, regenerative, ecologically balanced outcomes. We commit to inclusion, authenticity and the preservation of dignity at all times.
Why
We believe that each unique challenge and each solution belongs to those who live it.
We appreciate agriculture and food as the global ecological, cultural, economic, social, community, health and justice connectors.
We know that your contribution to the discussion brings value, diversity of thought, and fosters creative ways of learning, knowing and doing.
Recent Blog Posts
- The Power of Healing SpacesIt was a beautiful summer evening and I was riding my bike on the seawall when I passed an art installation with a ‘wind phone.’ My first thought was that it might just be a little silly to have an unconnected phone by the sea – but for some reason I stopped to investigate. The wind phone is there so anyone can sit quietly and call up a loved one who cannot be reached or to channel grief by speaking to a loved one who has left this world. It is a quiet chance to simply express feelings. The diary …
- Using Our Capacity to Cooperate and Collaborate in AgMuch of the conversations today are centred around trade and tariffs. There is a lingering uncertainty and fear. Producers through to processors are trying to navigate the shark infested waters. How then do we as an agricultural industry not only survive but thrive in such a stormy environment? The immediate thought is to fix the internal handicap of interprovincial trade. At last calculation, the barriers between provinces generated a 6.9% tariff. Until there is both enabling legislation and regulatory framework, including access to supply managed supplies, and the much-needed infrastructure is in place, it is highly unlikely that growth across …
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