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About Dustin Bajer

I am an educator, master gardener, writer, and ecologically inspired designer living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

As a child playing in the forest, I developed a deep appreciation for the natural world. As an adult, I work with clients to create a better world by partnering with nature.

I graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Education and have ten years of classroom experience. While teaching high school science, I created a school permaculture club and worked with students to design and install two food forests and Canada’s first school aquaponics system. I continue to work with teachers and students to promote classroom urban agriculture programming as Sustainable Food Edmonton‘s Urban Ag High coordinator.

2018 Avenue Magazine, Top 40 Under 40 Edmonton. Photo: Curtis Trent Photography

In 2011, I built a Warre beehive for my backyard. One year later, I modified the design to accommodate standard commercial frames, and the Beecentric Hive was born. Each Fall and Winter, I take orders from across North America and build hives designed for beekeepers and bees.

A passionate urban beekeeper, I have contracts to keep beehives at the Edmonton Valley Zoo, teach public beekeeping courses at the John Janzen Nature Centre, and lead the Northlands Youth Beekeeping Club.

I currently co-chair the Edmonton Food Council on which I have been a member since its inception in 2013. The Food Council works with City administration to implement fresh, Edmonton’s Food and Urban Agriculture Strategy.

Holding a potted current at Edmonton 1st River Valley food forest planting, 2014.

Since 2014, I have been partnering with the City’s Roots for Trees program to plant native food forests in Edmonton’s river valley. Each food forest contains thousands of edible, perennial, native plants and is an example of how the City can partner with nature to increase biodiversity, food security, public engagement, and a sense of place while creating biodiversity and mitigating the risks of climate change.

I am an avid gardener with interests in urban agriculture, perennial food production, and community building. I started Forest City Plants, an urban plant nursery that works with the community to find and propagate unique, edible, hardy plants for market.

I teach people how to solve problems by working with nature and offer consultation, public courses, and workshops on urban agriculture, beekeeping, and permaculture design.

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