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From our farm to your home!
From our farm to your home!
Alex (she/her) is the primary farmer at Bird & Bean Farm. She has settler heritage, her family origin is mainly from Scotland and Ireland, and grew up on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabeg traditional territory, in Ottawa. Alex identifies as queer and is lucky enough to share the property she farms on with other awesome members of the queer community. Alex’s love of the outdoors began at a young age. She was a camp kid who then became a canoe tripping guide in the summers. After high school, she spent a few years travelling around the world by volunteering as a WWOOFer (willing worker on organic farms) and her love of the natural world began to include growing. At the same time, however, Alex grew more and more concerned about our changing climate and wanted to affect change more directly through law and policy. This led to Alex returning to school for an undergrad and law degree, becoming a lawyer for a short time, before purchasing Bird & Bean Farm and diving in. She believes this huge variety of experiences lends well to another role she has since fallen into - being the Executive Director for LifeCycles Project Society, a food rescue and food literacy organization that fits perfectly in with her passions and enables her to continue to contribute to amplifying our local food system in the winter months when her farm is asleep.
She and her partner, Kurtis, also recently welcome a new member to their family and are so excited for Mara to learn and explore the farm as she grows.
This year, you can find us on Monday evening from June to mid-September at the Esquimalt Market located at Gorge Park. We also offer our produce on the South Island Farm Hub where you can order local veggies online all year round!
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