Jay Fish, Urban Regeneration: How Passionate Locals Transform Brownfields into Food and Friendship

What do you get when a sanitation worker, a compost wizard, and a gravel pit come together to grow community? You get Jay Fish, Founding Co-Farmer at Highfield Regenerative Farm, a 15-acre urban oasis tucked in the heart of Calgary. Jay’s story is anything but conventional: from chipping away at compacted industrial soil to pioneering a community-driven model of regenerative agriculture, he’s spent the last eight years transforming overlooked land into a living, breathing space for people and plants alike. In this episode, Jay gets candid about what it really takes to restore soil health, navigate municipal red tape, and foster a thriving volunteer-led ecosystem. Whether you’re curious about compost, passionate about food justice, or just wondering how one guy with a skid steer and a lot of grit helped turn a brownfield into a green space, this episode will ground you in hope and human connection.

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Jay Fish, Urban Regeneration: How Passionate Locals Transform Brownfields into Food and Friendship is an episode from They Just Get it by Tyler Chisholm.

This episode is 54:14 long.

This episode was published on Jun 18, 2025.

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