The Hands That Grow Your Food

For Angie, Fertile Ground has been an exciting venture into the world of farm entrepreneurship. Although university-educated in the social services, with five years of community development experience behind her, Angie started shifting towards the world of vegetable-growing through a season of WWOOFing and 3 years of doing urban agriculture work for The Working Centre. Her rural explorations continued during the 2007 season which she spent as a CRAFT intern at Everdale Organic Farm & Environmental Learning Centre. After 2 seasons of running Fertile Ground she's more convinced than ever that she's doing exactly what she wants to be doing. Angie loves getting her hands dirty & is proud when the grit just won’t come out from under her fingernails. When not in the fields or behind her computer, Angie can be found dancing blues or lindy hop, puttering around her kitchen, tossing a disc, or shamelessly tormenting her cat.



Photo: Early-morning spinach harvest

Since the beginning, Taarini has worked part-time with Fertile Ground. You're mostly likely to find her at our CSA pick-ups, behind our Saturday market table or (her favourite!) escaping the world in the fields while the rest of us are on vegetable-selling duty in the city. Taarini worked at Chick-a-biddy Acres near Peterborough for the 2006 season and has done plenty of her own backyard and indoor growing. She's an avid potter, a local food activist, and the creative hands behind our logo.

Photo: Getting the eggplants started.

After WWOOFing last summer on a variety of farms in BC and Alberta, Andrew kept busy learning and working at Seven Ravens farm and ecoforest on Salt Spring Island from the end of last summer through to February this year. Now, farmed and dangerous with more direction and drive than ever, Andrew is ready to come back to his home turf of Southern Ontario to be the first ever CRAFT intern to work with Fertile Ground, and he couldn't be more happy to do so. Andrew is a compulsive reader, and has recently had his eyes opened to the ever rewarding world of learning to play guitar.






Photo: Harvesting sorrel.

There's a lot of dirty hands behind your food...












Photo: The greenhouse framing crew, end of day.