The Backyard Bounty Team

Julianna van Adrichem, Project Coordinator, believes that the best way to affect change is through our purchasing decisions. Food is what gives us LIFE, it makes a huge impact on our health and wellbeing. In addition the food we eat impacts the environment and communities around the world. Growing up Jules spent a great deal of time on her relative’s dairy farms and fell in love with their animals and the country side. She saw the farms as being the centre to family units and a big part of the community. Later she did an internship at Whole Circle Farm and her ideas that farming can be done sustainably and holistically were confirmed. She also worked for Irvine Creek Organics and was an assistant farmer with Backyard Bounty in 2009.   She really likes to facilitate processes and talk to people, so she is really excited to be here this year! 

Julianna has a degree in International Development and also worked in waste management for the University of Guelph and the City of Guelph doing project development and communication work. She developed the University’s monitor recycling program and the City’s Paint Plus Reuse centre. 

Head farmer Scott Williams was born and raised in rural South-Eastern Ontario by non-agrarian parents, fell in love with the country at an early age. Scott's natural interest in organic gardening and farming sprouted shortly after high school during a short stay in Guelph as a participant in the Katimavik program.

From there, Scott pursued his new interest as a W.W.O.O.F.er in British Columbia and Australia and as an apprentice at two farms, one near Guelph, Ontario and the other near to Belleville, Ontario.

For the past four years Scott has worked as a baker in various forms and regions of Canada. During this time he lived on farms  and gardened part time. He is looking forward to getting his hands in the soil again this year!

Founder of Backyard Bounty Robert Orland has been in the land and water conservation field his entire career; Robert worked in several capacities with a conservation authority in the GTA. Taking a position with the Nature Conservancy of Canada brought him to Guelph. He made his home here and became a successful entrepreneur never losing his focus on making the world a better place.

He is the President of two other Guelph based businesses: Orland Conservation an entity devoted to permanent land conservation; and Better Planet Investments, a real estate investment company using environmentally friendly upgrades to houses and helping people rent-to-own their own homes across Ontario. In his “spare time” Robert leads a team of people committed to creating a unique ecovillage fostering each family to be self-sustainable.