Brent Preston

Brent Preston and his wife, Gillian Flies, owned and operated The New Farm, a Regenerative Organic Certified vegetable operation near Creemore, Ontario, for almost 20 years. In 2024 they transformed their farm into the New Farm Centre, a non-profit research and education organization dedicated to developing, demonstrating and advocating for a regenerative farming system in Canada.

Brent is the past President of the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario, co-founder and President of Farmers for Climate Solutions, and the author of The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution, a national bestseller.