Rod is the original Urban Farmer in Calgary, is a founding farmer member of the YYC Growers Cooperative and mentors new farmers at the Land of Dreams community farm, a project that combines welcoming newcomers, building relationships with our Indigenous community and together regenerating a former construction site to increase biodiversity and grow culturally relevant food. He is passionate about local food and particularly food grown in healthy soil soil. He comes alive when he talks about the soil and its potential as a compelling, living system to take us confidently into the future. As a Certified Nutrition farmer he utilizes regenerative practices building his own data on their impact for increasing water-holding capacity, reversing climate change, increasing biodiversity, and increasing the nutrient quality and flavour of our food. He believes in the saying, 'we are what we eat' and when you eat food grown with love that aligns with nature that food will be a source of healing.