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
- 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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- Reaching Farmers Through the ArtsDignity not only speaks to valuing and respecting people in their own space and place but also mirrors how we value ourselves. It is that fine thread woven into our actions that says ‘I can carry myself because I know your worth and I know mine.” Dignity, as a value, is often missing from programs and processes, systems and solutions and replaced by labels and an expectation that those in crisis step forward, fully exposing their vulnerable selves. In the Australian play entitled “Kick Off Ya Boots” the actors and characters are farmers, talking about the farm with love and …