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Organic Farmer, Herbalist, and Director, Apothecary’s Garden and Teaching Gardens at Churchill Park
Julia Hitchcock’s ancestors are from Latvia and England and she was born in Hamilton. Julia has been an organic vegetable farmer since 2001 – beginning at Plan B organic farm and, since 2012, urban farming with Backyard Harvest. Early on a curiosity about the field weeds led to the study of herbalism.
In 2015 herbalist Dan Riegler passed leadership of the Apothecary’s Garden to Julia. Located at the edge of forest, over the hill from the marshy tip of Lake Ontario, participants learn about medicinal plants, gather seeds, share herbal medicine recipes, enjoy wild foods and more. Julia is a mother of two teenagers and helps run a nature connection program at Planting Seeds of Hope, a Children’s Lands project close to Six Nations.