Brooks White, Bison Farmer

Brooks and Jen White along with their two young children own and operate Borderland Agriculture in the extreme southwestern corner of Manitoba.

“At Borderland, we focus on Regenerative Agriculture by incorporating bison into a highly diverse cropping system. Our bison are the key component to our vision of improving soil health, and we use their natural hardiness in our #graze365 program.  90% of the annual production in 2019 included the use of intercrops, companion crops, and cover crops.  As these cropping practises have been adopted, there is an improvement to the biology of the soil and a reduction to the need for inputs.  With our vision, we were recognized in the 2018 Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmer’s Program.”

Visitors are welcomed to the farm at any time.
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Erin Crampton

Erin grew up on a mixed farm in Manitoba in the 1980’s and has spent the last 20 years working on the periphery of agriculture through her store Crampton’s Market.

She is passionate about both conservation and farm advocacy and believes the two naturally go hand in hand. After working with hundreds of farmers she started to see a subset of producers that were making their farms better over bigger. They were layering enterprises to make space for the next generation to stay, creating life and vitality in their rural communities, and creating diversity and abundance on their land and local ecosystems. 

She has recently sold her store to focus on blending her conservation and farm advocacy work into decentralized Savory Hubs.