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Jeff de Jong, Abkhazi Garden
Jeff is a professional horticulturist who has spent many years instructing horticulture at Olds College and the Master Gardener Program. He can be heard every Sunday morning from 10AM-noon on C-FAX 1070 AM on “Gardening 101.” Jeff writes articles for several gardening magazines including the Canadian Gardener. He is currently the Site Manager at the renowned Abkhazi Garden, and leads garden tours to New Zealand, Europe and South Africa.
E-mail: jdejong@conservancy.bc.ca
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Brock McLeod and Heather Walker, Makaria Farm
Brock and Heather launched Island Grains in 2009, hosting a series of workshops and hands-on growing experience for 50 families. They own and operate Makaria Farm, a ten acre farm in the Cowichan Valley.
www.makariafarm.com
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Philip Young, Experienced Gardener
Philip is an enthusiastic amateur gardener of over 40 years, with a special interest in fruit and vegetables. For the last many years he’s worked alongside fellow volunteers tending the fruit and vegetables at Glendale Gardens/Horticulture Centre of the Pacific. Philip has taught certificate courses on fruit and vegetables in the community education program and workshop series, as well as the Master Gardener course.
E-mail: philcby@hotmail.com
(Picture credit: Jennifer Blyth, Victoria News)
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Brian Scullion, James Bay Honey Company
Brian has been keeping honey bees in an urban environment for ten years. He is very much in tune with the life cycle and needs of the honey bee, and is co-President of the Capital Region Beekeepers Association.
E-mail: scullion@shaw.ca
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Adam Hart, Nutritional expert and author
Keynote Speaker
Adam Hart is a nutrition expert, whole foods chef, professional speaker, coach and author. He has been a nutritional researcher for over 10 years, studying the ideal foods for easily attaining abundant health and happiness.
For years, Adam suffered from poor health himself: he was over-weight, stressed, pre-diabetic, slept poorly, was easily irritated and suffered from depression. He felt completely powerless and his life was out of control.
All this changed when he made the connection between what he was eating to how it made him feel. In 2003, he founded Power of Food, a nutrition and lifestyle company committed to educating organizations and individuals on the benefits of healthy eating.
www.poweroffood.com
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Dr. Michelle Gorman, City of Victoria
For over 25 years, Michelle has been diagnosing plant health issues and developing environmentally sensitive solutions to plant insect and disease problems. She enjoys working with others to come up with good solutions in their ornamental gardening sites. As the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Coordinator for the City of Victoria, she has been able to put her detective skills to good use in sleuthing out the source of plant ailments and assessing the best remedies. As co-chair of the Municipal Committee of the BC Plant Protection Advisory Council and the Invasive Species Steering Committee of the Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team (GOERT), Michelle keeps her finger on the pulse of new and potential plant pests coming into the region
E-mail: mgorman@victoria.ca
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Robin Tunnicliffe, Saanich Organics
Robin is an organic farmer, and part-time graduate student studying food policy and food sovereignty at UVic. She is co-owner of Saanich Organics, a farmer-run local food distributor. Robin is a board member of USC Canada, the Moss Street Market and the Islands Organic Producers Association. She mentors new farmers and writes for farmer publications to share information and help build the agriculture sector.
www.saanichorganics.com
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Carolyn Herriot, The Garden Path Centre
Carolyn authored A Year On The Garden Path, a 52-Week Organic Gardening Guide and The Zero Mile Diet, a Year-round Guide to Growing Organic Food (Harbour Publishing). She is a food security consultant and regular columnist for GardenWise and CommonGround magazines.
www.earthfuture.com/gardenpath
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Lehna Malmkvist, Swell Environmental Consulting Ltd.
Lehna (MSc, RPBio) is a vegetation and aquatic ecologist. Her expertise is in low impact/green development projects, rainwater/stormwater management, and watershed management. She is a consultant for terrestrial, freshwater and marine restoration design and implementation projects, and natural areas protection and management (covenants, plant salvage and invasive species management). Lehna’s philosophy is that on-site solutions are the answer to the majority of the threats to our aquatic ecosystems.
www.swell.ca
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Lynda Dowling, Happy Valley Lavender and Herb Farm
Lynda loves growing things and seeing others enjoy growing, too. For over 25 years she and her husband have been developing Happy Valley Lavender and Herb Farm with a public nursery and their annual Lavender Harvest time. Lynda has been a landscape gardener for private gardens for the last ten years…and claims the learning never ends!
www.happyvalleylavender.com
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Linda Gilkeson, West Coast Gardening
Linda is a regular instructor in the Master Gardener programs in BC and is busy year-round giving workshops on pest management and gardening. She co-authored organic gardening books for Rodale Press and has self published two more books. Her newest book, Backyard Bounty: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Organic Gardening in the Pacific Northwest will be out in April 2011.
www.lindagilkeson.ca
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Christina Nikolic, Gardener’s Pantry
Christina is a German-trained landscape designer, self-employed in Victoria since 2003. She usually is wearing at least four hats: design and light gardening; board member of SOUL; Instructor for Gaia College; and owner of the Organic Gardener’s Pantry.
www.gardenerspantry.ca
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Clay Whitney, BC Fruit Testers
Clay is a self-professed fruit addict! He specializes in all aspects of fruit growing, including custom grafting, pruning, and revitalizing heritage fruit trees. He has a keen interest in incorporating edibles into existing landscapes, and in utilizing all available space for food production.
E-mail: crwhort@yahoo.ca
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Dan Jason, Salt Spring Seeds
A passionate gardener since he planted his backyard in Montreal at age 13, Dan is committed to empowering people to grow their own food and save their own seed. Since 1976 he has lived on Salt Spring Island, where he created the mail order seed company Salt Spring Seeds.
Dan was very involved in Seeds of Diversity Canada in its early years, and he founded the Seed and Plant Sanctuary for Canada in 2003, which he now heads. He has authored many books, including the most recent Saving Seeds as if Our Lives Depended on It. An active critic of genetically modified seeds, patents on living organisms, and industrial agriculture in general, Dan is a dedicated farmer and educator on sustainable organic gardening and farming, food politics, and seed saving.
www.saltspringseeds.com
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Darren Copley, Victoria Natural History Society
Darren has a UVic Biology degree and decades of experience delivering public programming in a variety of capacities, including almost 20 years in the provincial park system. He teaches ecology and vertebrate biology at UVic, designs and runs workshops to train educators in using WILD BC materials, and works for the District of Saanich as an Environmental Education Officer. Currently President of the Victoria Natural History Society, Darren enjoys all aspects of natural history from birds to botany, and loves to instill his passion in others.
www.vicnhs.bc.ca
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