Meet Your Farmers
Below are brief bios of the current members of the Metanoia Farmers Cooperative.
Come visit us on the farm if you want to get to know us!
Come visit us on the farm if you want to get to know us!
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Trey Dornn(He/Him)
Trey has worked two seasons as a Metanoia Farmer. His interest in agriculture and food began when he worked on a honeybee farm, spending lots of intimate time with the bees and thinking about the challenges that pollinators currently face. This work developed Trey’s knowledge as a beekeeper hobbyist and helped cultivate his interest for organic farming and sustainable agriculture. Trey began experimenting with growing and animal care as the farm coordinator at Camp Assiniboia last summer, which has now brought him to the Metanoia Farmers Coop where he hopes to continue expanding his knowledge and love for agriculture. Trey is headed into his fourth year of an International Development Studies undergraduate degree at CMU. He is excited about the connections that come through small-scale farming, with land, food, animals, coworkers, and community members who contribute and partake in Metanoia.
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Kay Drudge(They/Them)
Kay has worked three seasons with the Metanoia Farmers. In past years, they have spent many hours gardening with family and friends, and loves the process of nurturing tiny, fragile seedlings into wild, overflowing adult plants. Kay 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. Kay loves to learn from fellow Metanoia 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, they loves long walks in Wolseley, serving tea to guests, and tinkering with an ever-growing houseplant collection.
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Bryn Friesen Epp(They/Them)
Bryn is working their 5th seasons with the Metanoia Farmers. As a child, their parents’ and grandparents’ Winnipeg gardens fuelled bike rides, cognitive conundrums, and their gut fungal and bacterial communities. Having inherited a love for locally grown food at a young age, they are always excited to participate in sustainable food systems within their hometown. This season Bryn is focusing on water systems. "The farm need to be more like a sponge!" they can be heard saying as they dance through puddles, trying to figure out exactly where water is pooling. They are excited to dig swales and become mud. When they are not farming, Bryn is found embroidering, protesting, or cuddling their beloved cat, El.
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Megan Klassen-Wiebe
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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.
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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, Ellis Hamm, Marta Bunnett, Hannah Derksen, Susanna Derksen, and Andrew Enns.