Janine G. Gibson lives supporting collective values as co-founder (1984) of her solar powered co-op farm south of Steinbach. Living on the land and working with healing ecosystems, including in the Portage Lisgar riding, has led her to activism protecting bioregional health, for local and national communities.

The reward from this service inspires her to invite others to the empowerment of living from your core values. Values of Health Ecology Fairness and Care are the foundation of the Green Party policies and platforms. 

Janine has a lifelong dedication to living and promoting team approaches to the problem-solving life requires.

Life-long learning; Janine studied Psychology at the U of Wpg and Human Ecology at the U of MB, with occasional invitations to serve as a guest lecturer in plant science classes by Dr. Martin Entz. Her roles with the International Organic Inspectors Assoc. include serving as (current) Vice President, president, peer evaluator and trainer.  Janine’s many years of working in teams developing and interpreting organic standards, transfers to practical policy development and implementation.  She is prepared to offer practical alternatives to extractive capitalism and industrial agriculture methods which need to evolve. Her contracts have included Organic Verification Officer, Inspector trainer, seminars on the Canadian Organic Standards, Comparative Analysis of Conformity Verification Bodies and distance organic crop and livestock production training via Assiniboine Community College. 

Promoting, collaborating, and nurturing high quality teams; Building organic agriculture teams in Manitoba through her 30-year business Creative Health Consulting, includes national president of Canadian Organic Growers (COG) currently Executive Secretary, co founder (1998) of COG’s local chapter, the Organic Food Council of MB and past co-president of the Manitoba Organic Alliance. She represents Manitoba on the Organic Federation of Canada and on the Organic Standards Technical Committee, with standard writing expertise and knowledge of restoring prairie ecosystems. Currently on the Executive of Hogwatch Manitoba and Our Line in the Sand, MB, she strives to hold business and government accountable.

*Proud mother of Arel (Troy) and Andrew (Molly), and grandmother to Saige (Quinn).