The Backyard Bounty Team

Born and raised in rural South-Eastern Ontario by non-agrarian parents, Scott Williams fell in love with the country at an early age. Scott's natural interest in organic gardening and farming sprouted shortly after high school during a short stay in Guelph as a participant in the Katimavik (www.katimavik.org) program.

From there, Scott pursued his new interest as a W.W.O.O.F.er (www.wwoof.org) in British Columbia and Australia and as an apprentice at two farms, one near Guelph, Ontario and the other near to Belleville, Ontario.

For the past four years Scott has worked as a baker in various forms and regions of Canada. During this time he lived on farms  and gardened part time. He is looking forward to getting his hands in the soil full time this year!

Founder of Backyard Bounty Robert Orland has been in the land and water conservation field his entire career; Robert worked in several capacities with a conservation authority in the GTA. Taking a position with the Nature Conservancy of Canada brought him to Guelph. He made his home here and became a successful entrepreneur never losing his focus on making the world a better place.

He is the President of two other Guelph based businesses: Orland Conservation – www.orlandconservation.ca an entity devoted to permanent land conservation; and Better Planet Investments – www.real-ontario.com a real estate investment company using environmentally friendly upgrades to houses and helping people rent-to-own their own homes across Ontario. In his “spare time” Robert leads a team of people committed to creating a unique ecovillage fostering each family to be self-sustainable.