Conversations with our Northern Partners: Brian Trewin

 

Brian talked to us about small scale agriculture in northern Manitoba and the importance of focusing on the process rather than the end goal

 

 

Name: Brian Trewin

Lives: Leaf Rapids

Occupation: Garden Coordinator with Grow North

That’s something I’m currently working on: What does a healthy relationship look like with a food system and how can I encourage that kind of building or reassessing within people. It’s always easier with youth because they don’t have these established relationships with gardening, they’re being introduced.

The generations upcoming are very important in making change because as an individual I don’t have a lot of sway […] whereas if a group was doing it or a community was doing it, so much more momentum can be built.

Thank you Brian for taking the time to chat with us!

 

Mentioned in this discussion:

Northern Healthy Foods Initiative (NHFI) and Frontier School Division’s Grow North program

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