Christy Kelly-Bisson (they/him) is a gardener, researcher, and writer who is focused on agroecology and land justice.
They were born and mostly raised in the community of Orléans in the Kitchi Sipi (Ottawa) Valley on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Algonquin-Anishinabeg people.
Their family are working-class Quebecois and Irish settlers who come from the Androscoggin (Saint-François) Valley in Ndakinna, the land of the Abenaki people.
Christy, who grew up moving around as a military brat, also spent much of their youth in Belgium, France, Italy, and Happy Valley-Goose Bay in the shared lands of Nitassinan-Nunatsiavut-NunatuKavut (Labrador).
Christy now calls the Pijinuiskaq (LaHave) Valley in Mi’kma’ki their home, where they research, write, garden, and co-organize a cooperative network of small-scale farms.
Their academic research and writing focuses on monitoring contemporary patterns of farmland ownership and understanding the historical materialist processes of settler-capitalist agrarian development in northeastern Turtle Island (North America).
Christy has also volunteered for local, alternative newspapers, like: The Leveller and The Lunenburg Barnacle. They have, in these publications, focused on topics relating to local political-economy and food sovereignty.
