Kayla Drudge
This is Kayla’s first season with the Metanoia Farmers. In past years, Kayla has spent many hours gardening with family and friends, and loves the process of nurturing tiny, fragile seedlings into wild, overflowing adult plants. Kayla graduated from CMU with a Bachelor of Music in 2020, and is currently co-authoring a chapter for publication which explores dynamics of inclusivity within local community choirs. Kayla is excited to learn from fellow CMU farmers as they work together to integrate community-building practices with practices of growing, eating and sharing sustainably-grown foods. Aside from gardening and writing, Kayla loves long walks in Wolseley, serving tea to guests, and tinkering with an ever-growing houseplant collection.
Bryn Friesen Epp
Bryn is working his second season with the Metanoia Farmers. He grew up in St. James and greatly benefited – and continues to benefit – from his parents’ and grandparents’ Winnipeg gardens. Having inherited a love for locally grown food at a young age, he is excited to work on the CMU farm helping to develop sustainable food systems within his hometown. Bryn has finished his third year of a philosophy and theology interdisciplinary degree at CMU and loves to discover how theological and philosophical traditions impact the ways we live and love in community. When he is not farming or studying, Bryn will likely be slacklining, cooking, or passionately scribbling in the margins of his books.
Megan Klassen-Wiebe
Megan has been with the CMU Farm since its inception. She first became interested in food justice and small scale farming while working on her 3 year degree at CMU. She finished this degree with a practicum on a small farm in New Brunswick that solidified her passion for food and farming and came back to Manitoba looking for a place to engage this passion. The CMU Farm and another bachelor degree (this time in Agro-ecology at the University of Manitoba) engaged that passion and have furthered her knowledge and understanding of sustainable food systems. Megan is a fledgling seed saver and is passionate about food, farming, land, and faith and loves that all these things come together at the CMU Farm.
Previous Farmers include:
Kenton Lobe, Maria Dueck, Julie Derksen, Matt Dueck, Kisti Thomas, Cecilly Hildebrand, Corrine Klassen, Kurt Lemky, Karin Neufeld, DeLayne Toews, Jeanette Sivilay, Jonah Langelotz, Anika Reynar, Erin Froese, Bug Hamm, Marta Bunnett, Hannah Derksen, Susanna Derksen, and Andrew Enns.
Kenton Lobe, Maria Dueck, Julie Derksen, Matt Dueck, Kisti Thomas, Cecilly Hildebrand, Corrine Klassen, Kurt Lemky, Karin Neufeld, DeLayne Toews, Jeanette Sivilay, Jonah Langelotz, Anika Reynar, Erin Froese, Bug Hamm, Marta Bunnett, Hannah Derksen, Susanna Derksen, and Andrew Enns.