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Sharon Rempel, B.Sc. Agriculture;MA Conservation Studies (and uncompleted Ph.D. in wheat biodiversity and role of women in plant variety selection) BC Author bio Sharon is 'bringing culture back to agriculture and folk back to food'Sharon Rempel runs The Garden Institute of B.C. Society and has managed projects for The Garden Institute in Nepal, Bangladesh, U.S. and Canada. Canada’s Sharon Rempel is using the power of stories to keep heritage wheats such as Red Fife alive and well for future generations. (Bakers' Journal, April 2010) and Deconstructing Dinner and Collaborative Journeys Sharon combines her 25 years of organic food and heritage seed expertise with growing local food with a vision of green, environmentally friendly, climate change adaptable philosophy and vision. As a social activist Sharon is working to design a radical new way of living for seniors. Sharon wants to establish senior cohousing that includes access to land to produce food and offers opportunities for low income social activist men and women to live in community. Imagine having your community seed bank protected by a circle of wise old food activists!!! BC Bookworld's bio of Sharon states 'Sharon Lynn Rempel would like to be remembered for her grassroot solutions for food security around heritage seed; for bringing heritage 'Red Fife' wheat out of the historic closet and recommercializing it in the global food system and creating Canada's 'Seedy Saturday’ community seed exchanges.' Sharon has been a pioneer in Neo Gastronomy: As a biologist working as a park naturalist, Sharon discovered ethnobotany in the mid 1980s. She's a member of the Society of Ethnobiology where she contributes her work in linking People, Plants and Place (3Ps'). And in her spare time she's a folk musician, plays the fiddle and is a collector of the traditional and modern songs about agriculture and varieties of plants. A member of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, Sharon Rempel is beginning a new field of Canadian music studies - linking song and story to traditional varieties of seeds and crops. Professional Highlights:
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