Lindsay is passionate about creating engaging and inspiring learning experiences for both educators and students through connections with people, places and Land. She recently completed a Master of Education at Lakehead University in Environmental and Sustainability Education. Lindsay has experience teaching in K–7 classrooms, has developed professional learning resources for educators and founded a local Forest School. Her teaching and research interests include environmental education, garden-based learning, place-based approaches, and reconciliation rooted in Land and relationship. 

At Farm To Cafeteria Canada Lindsay is the Food Literacy Coordinator, helping in the development of our School Food & Food Education Hub, which will help grow the capacity of educators across Canada to teach about food and food systems in schools and community settings. She is also a sessional instructor in the Faculty of Education at Lakehead University’s Orillia campus as well as a garden-based educator with Lakehead’s Farm Lab. 

Lindsay spends her time gardening, hiking in the woods, canoeing, cycling and skiing with her family. 

Lindsay lives and works from the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg. The Anishinaabeg include the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Pottawatomi Nations, collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy. 

Email : lsargent@farmtocafeteriacanada.ca