I edited and co-wrote Earthcare–Ecological Agriculture in Saskatchewan, published in 1980, a guide to organic farming in the prairie region. I participated in the committee that organized a series of six groundbreaking conferences on organic farming involving producers and government and university experts. During this time I became engaged in the Earthcare Group, a movement to promote organic gardening and farming and started to teach organic gardening classes for the University of Regina in 1975. I helped form the first community land trust in Canada and lived on a self-sufficient, off grid farm for 10 years. Although I was raised in a city, I became fascinated with agriculture as a youth and decided to “drop out” and become a smallholder farmer in Saskatchewan, Canada where I grew up.
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