Brenda is a Canadian-born Chinese agroecological sheep farmer, who left a financial career in downtown Toronto to start her own farm in 2009. She ran a one-acre market garden, growing vegetables for CSA members in the Greater Toronto Area for 14 seasons, as the sheep flock and their meat and fibre products increased. Now she is also working with Farmers for Climate Solutions (FCS) to help more farmers convert to climate beneficial farming practices through the FaRM Program. She wants to see farming become the climate crisis saviour it should be, building soils, sequestering carbon, being a moisture sponge and providing habitat for countless species.
Brenda farms on the traditional territory of the Mississauga, Odawa and Anishinabewaki, subject to treaty No. 45 ½ of 1836, by Chesley, Ontario.