Celes Davar

Celes Davar is a biologist, photographer and walker. He is passionate about connecting people in his community to those who wish to learn about local culture, art, live music, and food. He’s a foodie, who loves preparing food, learning about food culture, and introducing guests to local foods. He is also a lover of live roots and folk music believing that our songwriters today are some of our best contemporary poets.

Celes is a guide, choreographer, and storyteller. He is trained as a biologist and as an international climate change presenter (Climate Reality Leadership Corp). He is dedicated to coaching and helping local people share stories about their life, culture, and what they love doing as life-work. He works throughout Canada helping people and their communities express their traditions as stories and interactive experiences for travellers.

His company is award-winning, having won the Travel Manitoba award of distinction for leadership in tourism when they were residents in Manitoba. He is well-known as a facilitator, storyteller, and guide throughout Atlantic Canada. He is passionate about exploring ways for us to lower our ecological footprint. He and his wife live in an energy efficient Passive House designed by their son. They drive low emission vehicles.

For over 22 years, they have been influencing chefs, caterers, transportation companies, and guides to practice zero waste, and use local foods as part of all menus.

Susan Davar

Susan Davar is a functional potter whose work over the past thirty years has evolved into the use of medium-fired stoneware and porcelain clays that highlight unique glazes and slip trailings overlain on a variety of functional forms including teapots, vases, platters, bowls, and mugs. Her work is inspired by their location where Acadian forests, the Bay of Fundy and the Gaspereau Valley intersect.

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Associates

Guides & Experience Facilitators

Duncan Ebata

Duncan is a Japanese and Italian Canadian and grew up always creating a fusion of his diverse cultural backgrounds. He’s passionate about creating new Canadian food that reflects local ingredients and the diverse food culture of Canada. He enjoys teaching others about his joy for using local ingredients and foods from Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley region, a diverse agricultural region, with access to both marine and terrestrial wild and cultivated foods. “As a relatively new country, we’re making up Canada’s food culture based on what is foraged that is local, and what is locally grown with a blend of international flavours.” Duncan is a global traveller and slow food enthusiast, and brings ideas that he shares as guide and food storyteller.