Community Food Mentors (CFM) Directory
Curious about what NB Community Food Mentors are up to? Looking for a skilled individual to help you with your next community food action? With more than 600 Community Food Mentors (CFMs) in the province of New Brunswick, you are sure to find a like-minded mentor to collaborate on your next project!
Find a CFM by scrolling through the list, or narrow your search by entering a person’s first/last name, the name of a community or region, keywords like “garden”, “preserving”, or “gleaning”, or even by language spoken/understood!
If you are a CFM who wants to be added to the directory, click the "create my profile" button at the bottom of this page!
Note: Not all CFMs are featured in the directory yet. If you cannot find the CFM you are looking for, please contact mentors@foodforallnb.ca.
Senior Food Security Policy Analyst
RAVEN Project
I'm very interested in rural community development. I have 15 years of experiences working on communtity projects. I have a very solid foundation in permaculture, am an excellent networker and have a good amount of food skills, preserving, knife skills, gardening, seed saving. I'm also interested in greenhouses and other infrastructure projects.
Executive Director
Crescent Valley Resource Centre
Working in the Crescent Valley neighbourhood has provided me with opportunities to share my passion for food security. I have been able to access a variety of resources for local residents, help develop the Growing Place Community Garden and Greenhouse and further the goals of Food Secure SJ. I can offer workshops, links to resources for staff and clients, funding opportunities, professional development.
Journalist
Breton Beats
I am interested in growing food, teaching others how to gow food and using art in the process. I see this as a sacred and contemplative activity. To this end I have written and coordinated four Community Food Action grants and one Wellness NB Grant. Most recently in 2021 I joined forces with the Peter McKee Community Garden and Lifeschool house, a folkschool model that origanted in Nova Scotia and held a series of food oriented barter based wokshops at the garden.
I also am intersted in writing about the people in the food movement, and making videos about projects,places and people invoved in grassroots food production and self-sufficiency. My husband, Archie Nadon--also a CFM-- and I founded Moncton Beats in 2016 as a journalistic vehicle to publicise the stories of the food movement in southeast New Brusnwick.
We have just moved to Petit de Grat Nova Scotia and plan to continue the work here and are looking forward to some pan-Maritime projects.
Chair
Nackawic and Area Wellness Committee
I started on this road to Wellness and Food Security quite by accident and really never expected that my involvement and my community's involvement would grow to the extent that it has. Our community group has worked on 180 projects over the last eight years and at least half have had food as one of the ingredients and the more I am involved with the food initiatives the more need that I see.
United way
I'm responsible for the food operations for the senior and homeless programs for the United Way. I do mass feedings for both programs.
Food For All NB | Aliments pour tous NB
I'm Jill! Moncton CFM and Network Director at Food For All NB. In my role at Food For All NB, I'm happy to offer connections, share information, and support engagement in food movements across the province. I would be interested in being contacted for presentations, resources, or sharing related to Food For All's work!
I also love hot drinks, sandwiches, and just about any food so don't hesitate to contact me with an invitation to eat!
Farmer, Herbalist
Croft House Farms
My background in holistic healthcare (massage, nutrition, herbal medicine) has primed me with skills for growing and cooking nourishing food and herbal medicines. I am the farmer and herbalist behind Croft House Farms and the HerbMaven product line. I have a passion for empowering people to grow, make and use their own foods and medicines. I can offer teaching skills or knowledge around wild or cultivated medicinal plant use, fermentation skills, food preservation methods, budget-wise nourishing food.
Registered Dietitian/Food Security Coordinator
Western Valley Wellness Network/Carleton-Victoria Community Inclusion Network
Hi All! I'm Karrie - a Registered Dietitian practicing in New Brunswick. You can find me with an interest in all things food. From my work within the long term care and community sector, I've developed skills and experience at each step of my journey. I've helped to start bulk-buying clubs in Woodstock NB, held roles in Meals on Wheels Programs throughout the province and have a special place in my heart in helping drive poverty reduction, support seniors across the continuum of care and continue to advocate for food security for all. I've taken an untraditional route to dietetics, and carry a huge passion and belief in bringing communities together to "work smarter, not harder" and love coming up with out-of-the-box simple solutions for this line of work.
I'm always up for a connection call or to set up a 'brain date' over a cup of coffee.
Propriétaire Maraîchère
Je m'intéresse à l'autonomie alimentaire de nos régions et aux façons d'améliorer l'"empowerment" des gens de la communauté. Je suis directrice générale à Imaginons la Péninsule acadienne autrement et vice-présidente du Regroupement des jardiniers écologiques de la Péninsule acadienne. J'ai une maitrise en environnement, ce qui me permet de comprendre la crise environnementale d'un point de vue global. J'ai réalisé un essai sur. la capacité de la Péninsule acadienne à faire face aux bouleversements environnementaux et aux moyens pour développer une meilleure résilience et approvisionner la région en aliments et en énergie en plus de maintenir des structures de gouvernance à l'image de la région. Je suis également actionnaire de la Ferme Nikkal, une ferme en maraichage écologique. Je m'intéresse aux moyens de production de nourriture locale qui respecte les cycles de la nature et des écosystèmes. Je suis disponible pour participer à des discussions ou des ateliers sur ces thèmes.
I am an adult educator with decades of experience developing programs and working in the community, toward efforts of justice, inclusion and well-being. My background is as a pharmacist, with graduate studies and training in Adult Education and Co-operative Business Management. I have special training, experience and capacity to work with adults who experience barriers due to disability or mental health challenges. I am also food safety certified, a certified trainer for Mental Health First Aid, and an experienced small business developer and trainer.
I am interested in supporting projects that contribute to creating a wider vision of inclusion, health and resilience in communities.
Mario Doiron Art & Illustration
I am an Acadian artist, art instructor, gardener, environmental technician, butcher, woodsman and radio personality on CJSE Radio Beauséjour where I answer gardening questions. My wife and I run a small homestead farm in Saint-Paul, NB where we raise chickens and geese as well as manage a permaculture garden and private woodlot for building materials and firewood. We have used these skills to significantly reduce our cost of living over the last 20 or so years. Since the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, I have made it my personal mission to share that experience so that folks can better deal with the new economic realities we all must now face.
LifeSchoolHouse Pleasant Ridge
Michelle Davidson-Legere believes in the power of good food and the sharing of our skills and stories with each other in neighbour-to-neighbour moments of connection. Michelle is a Community Food Mentor and Master Food Preserver and uses both to engage and ignite everyone at the table.
She is grateful to acknowledge that the land she lives and works is the traditional unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq Peoples and intentionally honours deepening relationships with both.
Food Security Coordinator
Crescent Valley Resource Centre
I am a Registered Dietitian working for the Crescent Valley Resource Centre in Saint John, NB. I mainly look after our community garden, called The Growing Place, and am also involved with the other food programming that happens at the centre. I also have a role in running the Saint John region food security network, called Food Secure SJ.
Owner/Operator
L'Hirondelle Farm
Co-owner and operator of L'Hirodelle Farm. Grow vegetables for summer CSA, farmer's market. Make preserves/value-added products from garden and from foraged wild food. Raise pastured poultry. Started and ran Dundas Community Kitchen for 3 years. Interested in community gardens, community kitchens, foraging, gleaning, canning, cooking and preserving. Passionate about local food and food security. Can offer community kitchen help, gleaning, canning, growing local food, preserving.
Upriver Country Market Inc
Hi I’m interested in food security, food sovereignty. Supporting local. I like to be as self sustaining as possible.
It’s important for people to understand where their food comes from and how it’s grown or raised.
I currently work as co-ordinator for Upriver Country Market in beautiful Bass River.
I’m interested in building strong healthy communities and celebrating food.
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