Jennifer McIvor doesn't think of herself as a farmer, necessarily. "I feel like a farmer is more agriculture-based, where we're kind of different here," McIvor says from her desk in a recently constructed hydroponics facility.
"I guess we grow food and we produce food, but with different methods. We're not trying to mass produce, just trying to grow healthy, organic-type food."
A 2017 alumnus of the Assiniboine College horticultural production program in Brandon, McIvor has been working to improve food production and quality at Sioux Valley ever since taking on her role with the community as the Greenhouse, Gardens and Grasslands manager.
McIvor, along with members of her team and with the help of community volunteers, have expanded the community greenhouse operations, grown the local community garden project and seed reserves, and started down the road to restoring community-owned prairie lands for Sioux Valley's bison pasture.
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