Back for its second edition, In Soil-darity will next explore an Indigenous-led land trust in Kingston, Ontario as well as a new set of educational resources designed for emerging agricultural land trusts.
In Soil-darity is designed to dig deep into the transformative potential of community-owned farmlands. It is a first time collaboration between the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts and the National Farmers Foundation, with support from the Catherine Donnelly Foundation. Check out part one!
All Our Relations Land Trust
April 3, 2025, 12-1:30 PM (ET), Register
All Our Relations Land Trust is an Indigenous-led charitable organization located in Katarokwi (Kingston, Ontario), which is located within Dish with One Spoon wampum territory, and on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat. Katarokwi is home for approximately 7000 Indigenous Peoples of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit ancestry. Over the past few years, the Land Trust has cared for an Indigenous food sovereignty garden (including little forests, a fruit orchard, medicine and pollinator gardens, and vegetable garden) on roughly 3 acres in the east end of the city of Kingston – an area currently undergoing increasing urbanization. This land was recently gifted by the United Church of Canada to the Land Trust in support of the Katarokwi urban Indigenous community’s goals to promote biodiversity, Indigenous food sovereignty, and community connections with land. The Land Trust engages in this work because we recognize the land, waters, and all living beings as ecological kin – our beloved relations. Please come to this presentation to learn more about the story of All Our Relations Land Trust and our goals and intentions for the future as we continue our work.
Presentation by Dr. Kaitlyn Patterson (mixed-ancestry Algonquin, registered on 817 General List/Sudbury). Kaitlyn is a registered dietitian, co-founder of All Our Relations Land Trust and current Chair of the Board, and an Assistant Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University.
Introducing the Agricultural CLT Handbook
April 8, 2025, 1-2:30 PM (ET), Register
In this webinar, Madeleine Fournier will introduce the newly developed Agricultural-CLT Handbook, created in partnership with the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts and the National Farmers Foundation. While CLTs in Canada have primarily been utilized for urban residential land, the growing crises in farmland affordability, access, transition, succession, and land justice call for new approaches to land tenure. This handbook explores how the CLT model can be adapted for agriculture, rural communities, and food production, offering a sustainable, community-centered alternative to traditional farmland ownership.
Madeleine Fournier is a first-year Master of Environmental Studies student at York University in Toronto, focusing on alternative farmland access and tenure models. Born and raised in Orillia on Anishinaabeg Williams Treaties territory, she has been actively involved in farm, food, land, and seed justice initiatives. With nearly two years of experience at a conservation land trust and hands-on experience working on a small-scale ecological farm, she is passionate about developing land trusts that support agriculture and food sovereignty.