Debbie (she/her) is an engineering graduate from University of Toronto and has a Diploma in Organic Land Care from Gaia College. She endeavours to combine her technical skills with BUFCO’s vision to encourage mutually uplifting relationships between the earth and its inhabitants. 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) graduated from Queen’s University in printmaking and art history and has a Diploma in Organic Land Care from Gaia College. 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 an Organic Master Gardener and problem solver, who enjoys learning from life’s challenges. Merging her love for science and art, she studied Architectural Technology and Permaculture Design before working in ornamental gardening. She joined BUFCO with the goal to extend the joy gardens give her beyond aesthetics. When not covered in dirt, you can find her dancing salsa, biking, and tattooing.

An Li (she/her) is a self-professed vegetable maniac turned Organic Master Gardener, 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 world of gardening. She is an avid home-cook and traveler, always zipping around on her bike 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) is an Organic Master Gardener who 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 Argentina surrounded by pastures 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 and is now an Organic Master Gardener. She is transforming every room in her home into makeshift greenhouses populated with plants, that is, when she is not camping on the great Canadian shield.

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 11 years old, she is a little under 12 years old.