Jackie Milne, the President and founder of the Northern Farm Training Institute, is a local Hay River Métis woman with over 25 years of successful market gardening. She created and executed the vision for building this holistic farm and educational centre to genuinely empower people to transform their lives. NFTI farm campus is designed for feeding 200 people in a remote northern community and supports a vibrant regenerative landscape while empowering northerners to build productive local farms and thriving, healthy resilient communities. Jackie is also the leader of the first Canadian Savory Hub, which is a global network of regenerative agriculture teachers committed to Holistic Management.

Erin grew up on a mixed farm in Manitoba in the 1980’s and has spent the last 20 years working on the periphery of agriculture through her store Crampton’s Market. She is passionate about both conservation and farm advocacy, and believes the two naturally go hand in hand. Working with hundreds of farmers she started to see a subset of producers making their farms more efficient rather than bigger, layering enterprises to make space for the next generation to stay, creating life and vitality in their rural communities, and diversity and abundance on their land and local ecosystems. These farmers were achieving amazing results by practicing Holistic Management.

She has recently sold her store to focus on blending her conservation and farm advocacy work into decentralized Savory Hubs.

Ruth is an advisor, mentor and facilitator, to farmers, land managers and communities for understanding and connecting soil first solutions. Ruth completed a BSc. in Agriculture and MSc. in Rural Planning and Development at the University of Guelph. Growing up in rural southwestern Ontario, and having owned a mixed livestock farm with a former partner for 20 years, Ruth has developed strong connections to agriculture. In 2005, Ruth established her independent consultancy company and has provided services to a diversity of farms, businesses, and researchers with a focus on organic systems. Ruth has a passion for soil health and the power of regenerative agriculture to create a future worth gifting to our grandchildren. In 2017, Ruth cofounded an emergent soil health project with farmers, community members, and citizen scientists in Erin, Ontario. The work of the Soil Health Coalition offers a framework for the transformation and regeneration of our landscapes, people, and communities.

Mr. Raphael has a Master’s degree in biology from McGill University and has nearly 10 years of experience in the field of environment, including the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (Sépaq). After serving on COBAMIL’s Board of Directors for more than 4 years, he joined the tenure as Executive Director in June 2018.

Odette Ménard is an agricultural engineer from Ste-Hyacinthe in Quebec who has become the first woman to be admitted on the Conservation Hall of Fame of the Soil Conservation Council of Canada (CCSC). Along the years, Ms. Ménard has had a major role in the promotion of soil conservation in the southwest region of Quebec. She has participated actively in many councils, associations and clubs focused on soil health and conservation.

B. Lorraine Smith is a writer and an independent consultant. She imagines a future where business, people and markets serve a thriving society in a healthy biosphere. In other words, she invests her time in the evolution of a regenerative economy.

As a writer, Lorraine shares her ideas through her blog which introduces different people, places and possibilities connected to the future we want. Her forthcoming book, Where the Trees – ten human stories made possible by trees, journeys through landscapes and moments that challenge us to evolve our roles in nature. And she writes reports and articles about new mindsets and business models.

Since 2004 she has been working with global companies and leaders who are keen to shape the next phase of business. Along with working directly with clients, Lorraine is also an Associate Director at Volans, a catalyst for system level change led by John Elkington, where she informs the agenda on the New Carbon Economy initiative. She is also a senior consultant with BuzzWord, a leading sustainability reporting and strategy group based in the US.

She sits on the Board of Canadian Business for Social Responsibility and is a member of the Release Council of the Future-Fit Business Benchmark, an open source tool that quantifies how businesses are contributing to a sustainable future.

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Lorraine has lived in Australia, Brazil, Germany, New Zealand and New York City. She currently calls Montreal home. To find out more about Lorraine’s work at https://www.blorrainesmith.com/.

Jackie Milne, the President and founder of the Northern Farm Training Institute, is a local Hay River Métis woman with over 25 years of successful market gardening. She created and executed the vision for building this holistic farm and educational centre to genuinely empower people to transform their lives. NFTI farm campus is designed for feeding 200 people in a remote northern community and supports a vibrant regenerative landscape while empowering northerners to build productive local farms and thriving, healthy resilient communities. Jackie is also the leader of the first Canadian Savory Hub, which is a global network of regenerative agriculture teachers committed to Holistic Management.

Joel Salatin, 61, calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world. He is also a lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain’t Normal; You Can Farm; and Salad Bar Beef. Salatin raises livestock using holistic management methods of animal husbandry on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley.

Joel Salatin, 61, calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world. He is also a lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain’t Normal; You Can Farm; and Salad Bar Beef. Salatin raises livestock using holistic management methods of animal husbandry on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley.

Derek Lynch is Professor of Agronomy and Agroecology at Dalhousie University. His academic training is in agronomy (McGill University) and soil science (University of Guelph) and from 2005-2015 held the position as Canada Research Chair in Organic Agriculture. He has also served for many years on the executive of the Canadian Society of Agronomy, including as president from 2014-15. Derek teaches on soil and field crop management and agroecology at the undergraduate and graduate level at Dalhousie. His research program, much of it conducted directly in partnership with participating farms, focuses on cropping and farming system influence on productivity, soil carbon and nutrient dynamics, and soil health and biodiversity.

Ahau Marino, began his career in music in the year 2000. By the concern of discovering new styles and the learning of the ancestral cultures established in Mexico, before and after being modified by the Spanish colony, he integrates the African culture to the Mexican native.

Homogeneously, rhythms from different parts of the globe coincide as if they had the same origin.

Joel Salatin, 61, calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world. He is also a lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain’t Normal; You Can Farm; and Salad Bar Beef. Salatin raises livestock using holistic management methods of animal husbandry on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley.

Sylvain Maestracci has been the Agricultural Counselor at the Embassy of France in the United States, with regional competence over Canada, since March 2017. From 2014 to 2017, he was in the French Ministry for Agriculture and Food in charge of the subsidies allocation policy to farmers in the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union as project leader and Deputy to the Director of Common Agricultural Policy subsidies management. He handled negotiations on European agriculture, sanitary and food policies, as Inter-ministerial Coordinator (office of the Prime Minister) for these policies between 2011 and 2014, and as head of the European Union unit at the Ministry of Agriculture between 2007 and 2010.

Previously, he worked in the French Ministry of Finance, where he was in charge of economic analysis of agricultural and environmental policies, then of budgetary monitoring of European policies regarding agriculture, food and the environment.

Karl Thidemann, co-founder of Soil4Climate, serves on the board of the Somerville Community Growing Center, an urban oasis offering artistic, cultural, and educational programs in a regenerative-organic garden setting. Karl has experience in the environmental laboratory field, and he marketed electric vehicles for the company that began as MIT’s Solar Car Team. His focus is climate communications including poetry. Karl holds a B.A. in chemistry from Wesleyan University.

Jackie Milne, the President and founder of the Northern Farm Training Institute, is a local Hay River Métis woman with over 25 years of successful market gardening. She created and executed the vision for building this holistic farm and educational centre to genuinely empower people to transform their lives. NFTI farm campus is designed for feeding 200 people in a remote northern community and supports a vibrant regenerative landscape while empowering northerners to build productive local farms and thriving, healthy resilient communities. Jackie is also the leader of the first Canadian Savory Hub, which is a global network of regenerative agriculture teachers committed to Holistic Management.

Joel Salatin, 61, calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world. He is also a lecturer, and author whose books include Folks, This Ain’t Normal; You Can Farm; and Salad Bar Beef. Salatin raises livestock using holistic management methods of animal husbandry on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley.

Harry is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Propagate Ventures. Propagate is establishing the financial and legal infrastructure required to add profitable, functional tree crops to working farms. Bringing together investment capital, consumer brands, and land managers, Propagate fosters agroforestry-inclusive landscapes and supply chains. Crops with momentum include berries, pomme fruit, chestnuts, short-rotation timber silvopasture, and holistically managed cattle.

Headquartered in Hudson, New York, Propagate’s ethos centers on growing soil while strengthening rural economies in the cold humid climates of North America.

Harry originally hails from Massachusetts, and holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Vermont. Agroforestry research and consulting has brought Harry and Propagate to Argentina, Brazil, The Dominican Republic, Spain, Québec, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Ohio, Oregon, California, Tennessee, Maryland, and much of New England and New York. Harry enjoys running in the forest and and cooking in his free time.

Jackie Milne, the President and founder of the Northern Farm Training Institute, is a local Hay River Métis woman with over 25 years of successful market gardening. She created and executed the vision for building this holistic farm and educational centre to genuinely empower people to transform their lives. NFTI farm campus is designed for feeding 200 people in a remote northern community and supports a vibrant regenerative landscape while empowering northerners to build productive local farms and thriving, healthy resilient communities. Jackie is also the leader of the first Canadian Savory Hub, which is a global network of regenerative agriculture teachers committed to Holistic Management.

B. Lorraine Smith is a writer and an independent consultant. She imagines a future where business, people and markets serve a thriving society in a healthy biosphere. In other words, she invests her time in the evolution of a regenerative economy.

As a writer, Lorraine shares her ideas through her blog which introduces different people, places and possibilities connected to the future we want. Her forthcoming book, Where the Trees – ten human stories made possible by trees, journeys through landscapes and moments that challenge us to evolve our roles in nature. And she writes reports and articles about new mindsets and business models.

Since 2004 she has been working with global companies and leaders who are keen to shape the next phase of business. Along with working directly with clients, Lorraine is also an Associate Director at Volans, a catalyst for system level change led by John Elkington, where she informs the agenda on the New Carbon Economy initiative. She is also a senior consultant with BuzzWord, a leading sustainability reporting and strategy group based in the US.

She sits on the Board of Canadian Business for Social Responsibility and is a member of the Release Council of the Future-Fit Business Benchmark, an open source tool that quantifies how businesses are contributing to a sustainable future.

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Lorraine has lived in Australia, Brazil, Germany, New Zealand and New York City. She currently calls Montreal home. To find out more about Lorraine’s work at https://www.blorrainesmith.com/.

Starting work in greenhouse production in 2001, David has spent almost two decades continuously refining his skills in plant science. During that time, he graduated from McGill University with a Master of Science in Plant Sciences, and worked in the Greenhouses and Horticultural Research Center on campus for several seasons. From there, he went on to become the lead agrologist at Whistler Medical Marijuana Corporation, designing the certified organic growing program on site and helping the company to become the first fully certified organic licensed producer in Canada.

David’s current role is Vice President of Growing Operations at The Green Organic Dutchman, Canada’s (and the world’s) largest organic licensed producer with 12 acres of greenhouses.

Caroline Magar is trained in environmental design and landscape architecture. She has been working for 10 years in Montreal in urban ecological planning.

Vincent Poirier is Professor of Soil Science and Carbon Storage at the University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) where he is Scientific Director of the Agriculture and Agri-Food Research and Development Unit. He is also the Research Director of the Urban Ecological Integration Laboratory (LIEU) in Montreal, a non-profit organization promoting ecological services rendered by urban soils.

Ruth is an advisor, mentor and facilitator, to farmers, land managers and communities for understanding and connecting soil first solutions. Ruth completed a BSc. in Agriculture and MSc. in Rural Planning and Development at the University of Guelph. Growing up in rural southwestern Ontario, and having owned a mixed livestock farm with a former partner for 20 years, Ruth has developed strong connections to agriculture. In 2005, Ruth established her independent consultancy company and has provided services to a diversity of farms, businesses, and researchers with a focus on organic systems. Ruth has a passion for soil health and the power of regenerative agriculture to create a future worth gifting to our grandchildren. In 2017, Ruth cofounded an emergent soil health project with farmers, community members, and citizen scientists in Erin, Ontario. The work of the Soil Health Coalition offers a framework for the transformation and regeneration of our landscapes, people, and communities.

Erin grew up on a mixed farm in Manitoba in the 1980’s and has spent the last 20 years working on the periphery of agriculture through her store Crampton’s Market. She is passionate about both conservation and farm advocacy, and believes the two naturally go hand in hand. Working with hundreds of farmers she started to see a subset of producers making their farms more efficient rather than bigger, layering enterprises to make space for the next generation to stay, creating life and vitality in their rural communities, and diversity and abundance on their land and local ecosystems. These farmers were achieving amazing results by practicing Holistic Management.

She has recently sold her store to focus on blending her conservation and farm advocacy work into decentralized Savory Hubs.

Mr. Raphael has a Master’s degree in biology from McGill University and has nearly 10 years of experience in the field of environment, including the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (Sépaq). After serving on COBAMIL’s Board of Directors for more than 4 years, he joined the tenure as Executive Director in June 2018.