Our Vision

The HFC works toward the vision of regenerative and resilient food systems.

Our Mission

To foster a thriving community food system in Hudson (QC) that is ecological, healthful, and fair.

Our Values

Ecology - we work toward an ecological food system.
We recognize nature as the foundation for life.
We value ecological integrity as the basis for healthy systems. 
We value soil food webs, biodiversity, and the hydrological cycle.
​We honour the Earth's resource limits and use human agency to work with nature's cycles.
Health - we work toward a healthful food system.
We recognize human health as inextricable from ecological health. 
We value cellular health, tissue health, organ health, and holistic human health. 
We value biological health, mental health, emotional health, and spiritual health.
​We honour that the foods we ingest directly connect us to the health of the systems in which they were produced.
We value the health of our relationships and of all communities.
We honour cooking and eating together as celebration of life and relationships.
Justice - we work toward a just food system.

We recognize consumption as linked to a web of economic processes that are just or unjust.
We value human rights, worker's rights, women's rights, and indigenous rights.
We value seed sovereignty, food sovereignty, and the commons.
We recognize water and food as human rights.
​We honour our choices as votes for the world we want to perpetuate.

How We Work

1. Education and awareness building about the importance of healthy food systems.
2. Skill and knowledge sharing around healthy production, transformation, and consumption of food.
3. Dialogue and discussion about the future of food in Hudson.
4. Community building and networking to build the capacity needed to re-localize the food system.
5. Project Development to support our vision.

Our History

The Hudson Food Collective was founded in 2014 by Hudson residents Robyn Rees and Esme Terry, ​with the initial goal of getting the community together to share food knowledge and skills as part of increasing the resilience of the local community and our food system.

Robyn, a graduate student from Concordia University, believes that focusing on building resilient food systems is the key to ensuring a liveable future. She is motivated to bring together a community of knowledge and practice to work toward re-localizing the food system.
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Esme, a natural health practitioner and bookkeeper for three food organizations, feels passionately about the healing power of whole foods, seasonal eating, and being actively engaged in the local community.

Together, they reached out to the community and formed the HFC. After two years of events and activities, the HFC became incorporated as a non-profit organization in August 2016.
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Robyn and Esme tabling at Arts Alive in 2015.
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Robyn and Esme at the 2017 Spring Fling, an annual gardening event held in June on the Wyman Memorial Church lawn (Hudson, QC).
Code of Conduct
We strive to maintain and promote:
  • Respectful interpersonal interactions
  • Transparency
  • Honesty
  • Tolerance and patience
  • Open participation
  • Inclusiveness
  • Empathy
  • Sharing of ideas and experiences
  • Consensus model based decision-making
  • Non-hierarchy
  • Collaboration and cooperation
  • Creativity and innovation
  • Adaptability to change
  • Resilience
  • Leadership by example
  • Respect for nature
Let's put our money where our values are
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Thank you to our funders for making the Hudson Heartbeet Community Farm possible.
Regenerative agriculture provides answers to the soil crisis, the food crisis, the health crisis, the climate crisis and the crisis of democracy.
- Vandana Shiva