Dag Falck

I currently work with Nature’s Path Foods Inc. as their Organic Program Manager. We are North America’s largest organic breakfast cereal manufacturer. My duties include encouraging enough cropland to be converted to Certified Organic, enabling our uninterrupted organic production. I also help provide organic farmers (including those new to organic) with access to organic agronomic resources, and growing and harvesting techniques to ensure that the highest quality of organic crops are achievable.

I am active in organic sector developments and a member of: Canadian Health Food Association’s Organic Advisory Council, - Independent Organic Inspectors Association (past board member), - a committee to help form a Canadian OTA, - the Organic Regulatory Committee, - and a committee struck at Guelph Organic Conference to propose ways to form a Canadian Organic Partnership .

I was educated as an agronomist in Norway where I grew up, and later worked on several mixed farms and was the farm manager for Providence Farm for 2 years, a therapeutic community operating a 400 acre farm on Vancouver Island.

Gaining 14 years of experience as an independent organic inspector in Western Canada, verifying a variety of organic crops from market gardens to field grains and also complex processing has given me a unique perspective and understanding of the organic sector.

I enjoy growing my own organic garden with my family, using mulch as much as possible to avoid spending the whole summer weeding, leaving some time for horseback trail-riding with my wife and daughter.

E-mail: dfalck@naturespath.com