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Jon Gagnon

Nobleton,ON

Summary

Experienced regenerative farmer specialized in sustainability and social justice within agriculture. Avid communitarian and consensus-builder skilled in fostering collaboration and community engagement to foster vibrant and sustainable neighborhoods.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Farm Supervisor

YMCA Cedar Glen
02.2022 - Current
  • Responsible for all elements of planning, implementing, and delegating tasks with a team of 7 employees and several volunteers on two separate organic farm locations.

Content Creator

P3 Permaculture
Wakefield, Quebec
03.2021 - 11.2021
  • Edited raw footage into cohesive narratives and created an an online Permaculture Design Course curriculum using Adobe Premiere Pro.
  • Developed content strategies for social media platforms such as Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram.
  • Set up and operate video cameras, audio recorders, lighting equipment, props, and other related production equipment.

Field Manager

Earth to Table: The Farm
Ancaster, Ontario
03.2018 - 11.2020
  • Responsible for all elements of planning, implementing, and delegating tasks with a team of 4 employees and several volunteers for a 1.5-acre market garden growing exclusively for high-end restaurants. Collaborating closely with dozens of chefs to customize the crop plan as appropriate.
  • Also advised on and implemented a larger multi-year cover crop plan for the whole farm, including several incubator farm plots, and aesthetically pleasing fields for on-farm weddings.

Member | Volunteer

Whole Village Ecovillage
Alton, Ontario
04.2012 - 11.2017
  • During my 5 years of volunteering on this diverse organic farm and intentional community, I was an integral leader of the farm operations, community outreach programming, and governance training and procedures.

Education

Media Arts -

Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Oakville, ONT.

Journalism - Print and New Media -

St. Clair College of Applied Arts & Technology
Windsor, ONT.

Skills

  • Permaculture Design
  • Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Writing
  • Filmmaking
  • Regenerative Agriculture
  • Seed-Saving
  • Bilingual (French English)
  • Social Media
  • Sociocracy
  • Soil Microbiology
  • Facilitation
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office

Awards, certificates and affiliations

  • Founding Member/Director - Sundance Commons
  • Board Member - Transition Guelph
  • Volunteer Seed-Saver - Seeds of Diversity
  • Farmer-Researcher - Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario
  • Intro to Cover Crop Course - Canadian Organic Growers
  • Cannes Film Festival Bronze Lion - Westjet Christmas Miracle
  • U.N. Civil Society Representative - Global Ecovillage Network
  • Permaculture Design Course Certificate

Timeline

Farm Supervisor

YMCA Cedar Glen
02.2022 - Current

Content Creator

P3 Permaculture
03.2021 - 11.2021

Field Manager

Earth to Table: The Farm
03.2018 - 11.2020

Member | Volunteer

Whole Village Ecovillage
04.2012 - 11.2017

Media Arts -

Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Journalism - Print and New Media -

St. Clair College of Applied Arts & Technology

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