Gillian Flies

After growing up on a sheep farm in rural Vermont, Gillian Flies launched a career that took her to the far ends of the earth, working as a teacher, human rights investigator, democracy advocate and management consultant in more than a dozen countries. In 2003 she and her husband abandoned successful careers in Toronto, packed up their two young children, and moved to a run-down farm outside Creemore, Ontario. Since then, she has built The New Farm into a thriving business and a leading light in the good food movement, providing vegetables to some of the best restaurants in Canada and raising over a million dollars to make local, organic food accessible in low income communities. Gillian has saved as a director of a number of prominent food corporations, and is currently a broad member of the Canadian Organic Growers.