Debbie (she/her) studied engineering at University of Toronto and is an Organic Master Gardener. After volunteering at permaculture farms in Norway, she joined BUFCO to combine her technical skills with Arlene and Marc’s imagination to encourage mutually uplifting relationships between the earth and its inhabitants through food. She enjoys feeding garden scraps to her bunny, feeding bunny poo to her worms, then feeding worm poo back to her garden.

Julia (they/them) is an Organic Master Gardener who previously graduated from Queen’s University in printmaking and art history. Julia joined the BUFCO team after working at organic grocery stores and farmer’s markets, building rammed earth houses, and designing vegetable gardens. In their spare time, Julia can be found tending their own backyard veggie patch, playing music and cooking for friends.

Luisa (she/her) is a problem solver, who enjoys learning from life’s challenges. She studied both Architectural Technology and Permaculture Design. To merge her love for science and art she started working as an ornamental gardener in 2018. She’s joining BUFCO this year with the goal to extend the joy gardens give her beyond aesthetics, and help urbanites become more self-sufficient. When not covered in dirt you’ll find her dancing salsa, biking, and tattooing.

An Li (she/her) is a self-professed vegetable maniac, and loves cultivating edible plants as well as a host of indoor ones wherever she lives. The natural world has been a well of inspiration for her art work that continues to evolve as she delves deeper into the magical world of gardening. She is an avid home-cook, passionate about travel, and zipping around on her bike — always on the hunt for excellent carrots.

Bryce (he/him) has worked for many years in construction as a mason and a carpenter while side hustling as a multidisciplinary sport coach using sport and circus as a setting and catalyst to plant seeds in the minds of his clients about their own empowerment to navigate choice and challenge. “Abundance is all around us when we turn our minds from the fear of scarcity.”

Matt (he/him) spends every possible minute he can outdoors, when not outdoors he’s inside planning ways to be outdoors. Matt’s dream is to live off the land and be as self reliant as possible. He is always eager to learn something new.

Victoria (she/her) grew up in the pampas of Argentina surrounded by pastures, cattle and surreal sunsets; a setting that spurred her love for nature. After working as an elementary school teacher in Buenos Aires, she migrated to Toronto with her family in pursuit of new horizons. Every house she has called home has been populated with plants of every kind, transforming mere rooms into make-shift greenhouses, that is, when she is not camping on the great Canadian shield.

Catherine (she/her) comes from a varied past far from her degree in English Literature. After 15 years in technology and 5 years of residential construction she happily found her way to accounting and settled in as BUFCO’s bookkeeper. Next to making sense of the numbers, she most loves learning about growing vegetables. She lives by the credo that life is better outside, her favourite place being the quiet solitude of nature either on a bike or in a canoe.

Dixie (she/her) is an extremely well trained Australian Shepherd who has been BUFCO’s official mascot since joining the Hazzan Green household in the early days of the company’s history. She’s a graduate of nowhere in particular, and aspires to eat, sleep, chase squirrels from the BUFCO gardens, and occasionally play. At somewhat over 10 years old, she is a little under 11 years old.