The People of the Food Action Committee:

Marla MacLeod
Food Connections Project Coordinator
Email
(902) 442-1077

Marla has been a volunteer with the Food Action Committee since 2004 and started her staff position as Food Miles Project Coordinator in 2007. She has a B.A. from Mount Allison University, and a Master of Environmental Studies from Dalhousie. She loves mucking about in her garden and cooking up tasty meals, as well as hiking, biking, and camping. 

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Garity Chapman
Urban Garden Project Coordinator
Email
(902) 442-1077

Garity has been working with the Urban Garden Project since 2007. She is an avid urban gardener with a special affinity for guerrilla city snacking, and transporting garden supplies and harvests around the city in the large basket on her bicycle. Her interests in urban agriculture continue to grow along with the scope of the Urban Garden Project and she dreams of big plans for a lush, beautiful and food productive Halifax.

With an BA in Native Studies from Trent University and a BFA from NSCAD University, Garity brings a wide scope of interests to her work, including social justice, urban planning and social art practices.

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Rebecca Singer
Coordinator, Native Plants Pollinator Project
Email
(902) 442-1077

As a child, recesses were spent constructing nests out of grass clippings and writing messages in the chain link fence with dandelions. Rebecca is excited to be able to further her interests in plants and the magic of city spaces through the Food Action Committee, working with community groups to create native plant gardens for wandering bees and butterflies.
Rebecca is a NSCAD graduate, uncharted hairdresser, and enthusiast of most things. She'll be helping to kick off work inside the newly constructed community greenhouse just off Almon St. in the Bloomfield Centre parking-lot. Drop by and check it out if you get a chance!
 

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Libby Dean
Research Facilitator
(902) 442-1077
 
Libby is helping us to evaluate our FAC activities and provide research support.  Her recent research experience includes Aboriginal health, food security and the communication pathways people use to get health and nutrition information. She has degrees in Human Ecology and in Environmental Studies and before that she spent two years as a student with the travelling, experiential National Audubon Society Expedition Institute. This alternative to conventional high school / college meant sleeping in a tent every night, year-round and was how she first came to the Maritimes. Libby has worked on organic and biodynamic farms in Maine and Scotland; and she grew up in New Jersey suburbia where the farmland of the ŒGarden State¹ has been growing a bumper crop of McMansions and fewer edible crops. She is looking forward to learning about ways to grow food on her urban deck.

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Sonia Grant
Urban Gardens Project
(902) 442-1077

Born and raised in Halifax, Sonia is now studying International Development at Dalhousie University. She works with the Loaded Ladle, a student-run food cooperative at Dalhousie, and with the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition. She loves thinking about how to transform urban spaces to make our communities healthier, fairer, and more sustainable - and she thinks that planting gardens is an important part of this process! In her spare time, Sonia enjoys hiking, biking, swimming, cooking, reading, tea, and yoga. She is thrilled to be working with a group of wonderful people at the Food Action Committee to support urban agriculture in Halifax.

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Jen Greenberg
Heliotrust Coordinator; Food System Analyst

Jen studied Biology, International Development Studies, and Economics as an undergrad, then became a MES(s) at Dalhousie U.  However, most of her real education happened while working on farms.  Recently she has worked as an organic farm certification inspector and for GPI Atlantic as a genuine progress analyst.  She loves trees, milk cows, raspberries, cycling, swimming, skiing, dancing, and making really good compost. 

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