Doreen Ojala Executive Project Manager projectmanager@foodshedproject.ca Doreen Ojala graduated from Canadore College in Biological Sciences Technology and graduated with an Earth Science degree from Laurentian University in 1996. She has also taken several courses in food security from Ryerson University. Doreen worked for Heat Save North in her earlier years, and later became the first female EnerGuide for Houses certified energy advisor in Canada (through Natural Resources Canada). Her roots run deep in Northern Ontario, dating back to the 1880's when her grandparents family immigrated from Sweden. Doreen moved back to the family homestead as a child. It was one of her first insights into how as pioneers from a distant land, her ancestors survived by growing and preserving their own food. The family homestead basement was full of her grandmothers preserving jars. She remembers potato gardening and hoeing the raspberry patch with her grandfather August Johnson until he was over 85. She also recalls the north and south facing garden and one of her biggest childhood successes - transplanting wild strawberries! As a part-time naturalist, and as someone interested in sustainable diets, Doreen started The Foodshed Project as a way to sustain support for community gardens. Since 2003, The Foodshed Project has evolved and is now moving in the direction of engaging the next generation of Greater Sudbury "foodies" to develop a more local, climate-friendly, and biologically diverse, food system.