Shane, a McMaster University graduate in Environmental Studies, operates a 50 acre certified organic farm in southern Ontario. He grows vegetables, herbs and cut-flowers for farmer’s markets and a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Shane wants to further investigate small scale hop production and processing along with local brewing activities and marketplace initiatives. His goal would be to develop a long term hop industry with a variety of small entrepreneurs.

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Sarah grew up on a vegetable farm near Stratford Ontario until attending University of Guelph to study International Development and Political Science. After a period of employment as project manager for “Hamilton Eat Local” she returned to the world of academia to do her Masters in Rural Planning. As a Nuffield scholar she is proposing to study models and policies supporting Greenbelt agriculture in European Union.

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