Art | Community | Systems

Coordination & Creativity

Author: I aim to share my written words, for record keeping, for enjoyment and for encouragement.

Artist: I love both the practice of art for my own wellness and sharing beautiful things with the people around me.

Food Systems: Inspired by the concept of prefigurative imagination, I aim to help bring idealist thoughts together with feasible project outcomes that result in tangible action in communities. 

Facilitation: I love working with people. I tend to bring a [professional] touch of silly with me, for I find everything is accomplished to a higher degree when the people are happy. Happy to facilitate in the spheres of food, agriculture and art.

Project Management & Coordination: I am skilled in supporting workshops and events, both on day of and in planning and preparation.

My Education

I am currently studying at OCAD University, in the Master of Design Program Strategic Foresight and Innovation, with a subject focus on somatic awareness, food systems and accessible public spaces.

At Trent University, I had the pleasure of studying in a multi-disciplinary way. Focusing on sustainable agriculture & food systems and environmental studies & resource management, with a sprinkle of geography, biology, creative writing & literature, Indigenous studies, and landscape design.

During my time at Trent, I developed my love for natural systems, and my love of the market garden model. Previous to this time, climate change and environmental degradation, felt so large and like an ever present doom. Understanding the food system, and the possibility for change at the same time having my hands in the dirt growing food, fundamentally changed my way of thinking. This time left me even more in love with agriculture, and hopeful that I will be a positive change maker in my career.

At Durham College, I had the opportunity to complete a post-graduate certificate in Project Management. Wildly different from my other studies and work experience, this program gave me the practical skills to find efficiencies, and practical business tools that will help me to lead the way in whatever position I work within.

Program Development and Delivery

Program development in the context of food, farming, community wellness & personal respite, and in art; specialized in print making, able to facilitate collage, basic drawing/painting/creative exploration. I have lead the development and delivery of several independent and workshop series.

Artist

Printmaking, letter writing, workshop delivery.
Artist statement under construction.

Speaking

I am an enthusiastic and confident speaker, who is able to weave storytelling, research and organizational messaging, to keep audiences engaged and interested in the topic at hand. In my current role, presentations to external stakeholder groups and community groups is a regular part of my role.

I have also been part of a variety of panels in larger settings including at the Royal Winter Fair in 2023, 2024 & 2025.

Agriculture

I have spent many years boots on the ground, farming, primarily in small scale vegetable production. My love of working outdoors began when I was about 10 years old and I traded work for rides at a local horse barn.

Throughout the years this love of nature, animals and agriculture blossomed into a wide range of odd jobs, as I navigated what different careers in the sector looked and felt like. I worked in horse barns, doing all the jobs you can imagine, from mucking stalls, grooming, riding, training, competing, trimming hooves, doing hay, fixing fences, running camps… the list goes on! Additionally, I have experience working with livestock, including cows, chickens, pigs and goats.

I have spent years working at an assortment of market gardens and farms, holding responsibilities from field planning, CSA and wholesale order tracking and packing, farmers market manager, field work, inventory and warehouse management, driving horses and tractors to accomplish a variety of tasks.

I see the transformative power of food and the power of working on and with the land. I have farmed primarily with colonial influences, and methodologies. In my personal gardens, I strive to follow the lessons I have learned from Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee elders and teachers, while I re-wild and garden the land upon which I currently reside.

References

If you are interested in hearing from any of my references, can you please send me an email at jenniferhoban.jh@gmail.com and I will provide you with relevant details as soon as I am able.

Additionally, feel free to message me on LinkedIn and Instagram, if you are looking for more information about me.