Stéphanie Wang was born in Montreal to Cantonese parents who grew up in Madagascar. She completed a master’s degree in sociology of agriculture and worked five years with farmers’ organizations affiliated with La Via Campesina. She founded Le Rizen in 2016 in Frelighsburg, Eastern townships of Quebec. The farm specializes in the organic production, processing, direct marketing, and promotion of more than 40 Asian vegetables, plants, and seeds.

Wang is the author of “Perennial Farms for Now and the Future” and co-author of “Asian Vegetables.” In 2023, she received the Producer of the Year award at the Lauriers de la Gastronomie québécoise. She sits on the board of directors of Union Paysanne because she believes that borderless solidarity is necessary to bring food sovereignty initiatives to life.

Please join Wang for her first visit to the Fair, where she will be sharing her passion and experience with growing and cooking Asian vegetables. On Saturday, September 20 at 2 p.m, Wang will teach “Cooking with Asian Vegetables: Malabar Spinach Cake Demonstration and Tasting” in the Country Kitchen Demo Tent. On Sunday at 10 a.m., Wang will teach “Lacto Fermenting Asian Vegetable: Sichuan Pickles Demonstration” in the Country Kitchen Demo Tent. She will also share her vision and decade-long work of cultivating food sovereignty through diversity, resilience and solidarity from local to international levels on Saturday, September 20 at 4 p.m. in the DIY #HomeHacks Speakers Tent during her talk, “Le Rizen: Diversity, Resilience, and Collectivism for Perennial Farms.”