Sharon Rempel, Heritage Wheat Expert
Sharon Rempel will challenge your belief systems in cultural and society systems. She is not for the timid. She’s blunt, energetic and visionary and believes that together people can co create another way of living of the Earth.
When you hire Sharon as a consultant or speaker you get her 25 years of expertise and access to global networks as well as her vision of ‘possible’. She believes that organisms acquire the characteristics they need to survive from environmental/ genetic interaction and genetic memory. She works exclusively with heritage varieties of crops, especially wheat. She also conserves the traditional knowledge of farming and growing the crops. She knows the past can provide answers and seeds.
Sharon does not sell seed. She is a community development facilitator around seed and food. She makes use of the ‘Seed Circle’ or ‘Seed Cycle’ in a modern version of the ‘Mystery School’ of ancient Greek goddess Demeter. She believes we must find spirituality and connection to soul, to community and to Earth and can use the seasons of the seed life as mileposts.
Sharon is the godmother of the Red Fife seed movement in Canada. She knows that with a seed and a vision you can create and regenerate communities, societies and systems.
On the front page of the Victoria ‘Times Colonist’ December 9, 2007 Sharon states “"Without grain, we do not have food security,” says Sharon Rempel, a Metchosin agricultural historian who is starting the Red Fife Green Seed Foundation to raise awareness of “heirloom” wheats she predicts will adapt to climate changes to come. “
“The hand that holds the seed controls the food supply. May it always be
the hands of people who respect the Earth and the amazing diversity in every
crop and field.”
Sharon Rempel
“She knows how to get to the expert source of information quickly. She is called on to comment on topics of heritage seeds, conservation and agriculture history by our National radio program. She is very likely our most expert agricultural historian in British Columbia; her practical agricultural knowledge is matched by a sound foundation in Botany.”
Dr. Richard Hebda,
Royal B.C. Museum;
Professor Biology/Botany,
University of British Columbia
“In listening to Sharon speak in public meetings and in informal setting with researchers, farmers, and the general public her enthusiasm for her work is very obvious and motivating to all. I feel if more people would have the attitude about their work in the manner that Sharon has this would be a much better world to live in.”
Steve F Zwinger,
Research Specialist/Agronomy,
NDSU:Carrington Research Extension Center, North Dakota