About Sally Miller

Sally Miller (BA Princeton, MA, PhD Cornell University, MES York University) has worked in sustainable food and agriculture and co-ops for over twenty-five years. She has extensive experience as a consultant, mentor, director and manager in a variety of food and agriculture co-operatives, non-profits and other enterprises, including the Local Food and Farm Co-ops, Ontario Natural Food Co-op, Organic Meadow, Fourth Pig Worker Co-op, Ontario Sustainable Energy Association, West End Food Co-op in Canada, and Finger Lakes Organic Growers’ Co-op in the U.S. She has given numerous presentations and trainings in social enterprise development, alternative economics, sustainable food economies and local economic development. She was a founder of the Fourth Pig Worker Co-op in 2007, a natural building worker co-op. In 2008-2012, she worked with Toronto’s West End communities to develop one of Ontario’s first non-profit multi-stakeholder co-ops, the West End Food Co-op. Sally Miller is also the co-founder and Manager of the Fair Finance Fund, providing equitable loans for social entrepreneurs in Ontario’s local food and farm sector.

Publications include a book on innovative approaches to achieving a more equitable and sustainable food system (Edible Action, Fernwood Publishing, 2008), a recent book on land and food (Belongings, Fernwood Publishing, 2016),  and various research reports and articles on food, farming and land. Sally worked with FarmStart to develop alternative financing for new farmers and with Toronto Public Health and the Parkdale Food Flow project on community food distribution. She was the Project Coordinator for the Regional Food Hub Project at the Local Organic Food Co-ops Network, based at the Ontario Natural Food Co-op, the Manager of the Local Food and Farm Co-ops, the Founder and Manager of the Fair Finance Fund, and the Research Coordinator for the Toronto region for the international City Region Food Systems project.