Jane Hayes
Garden Jane Permaculture designer, community developer and educator; Investing in impactful urban agriculture, social permaculture edge work, and economic opportunities around permaculture practitioners and projects; Practicing in the Greater Toronto Area for most of ~25 years. MES, BA, PDC
About this speaker
Jane is the principal at Garden Jane and founding partner at Hoffmann Hayes. Some of the projects she has helped design and animate include: ~25 residential & commercial building gardens in the Greater Toronto Area; The Erin Mills Farmers Market, the Permaculture in Ontario map, the City of Toronto Children’s Garden Program and High Park Children’s Garden. Jane has worked with FoodShare, the City of Toronto’s Community Garden program, and worked at Evergreen supervising Landscape Architect across Canada for a School Ground Greening Program. She co-authored the City of Toronto’s Community Garden Action Plan, a foundation for the City’s community garden strategy. She is passionate about helping grow the infrastructure for gardens and garden programs that serve and help support thriving people and ecologies in the GTA and globally. Jane is a graduate of U of T and holds a Masters of Environmental Studies from York U. She’s certified in Permaculture Design and as a Permaculture Teacher.
