Andrea Gunner, PAg, is the deputy registrar – practice for the BC Institute of Agrologists, the
regulatory body that governs the professional conduct of 2,200 agrology professionals practising
in BC.

Andrea has a strong background in farm business management, from primary producer to
value-added processor, and has a rich history serving on community and industry boards and
government panels.

As a professional agrologist for more than 30 years, working with for-profit, non-profit, and
government organizations, she has successfully supported farmers, ranchers, and food-
processing clients, producer co-operatives, farmers’ markets, First Nations, industry
associations, and government, from municipal to federal levels.

Her diverse background spans sectors such as landscape nursery, nutraceuticals, and grain
cleaning and processing. Her strong collaboration, communication, and project-planning skills
have been instrumental in various initiatives, bridging gaps between agricultural producers and
consumers to foster sustainable, economically viable food systems.

Alongside her husband, Andrea operates a certified organic, pastured poultry farm in the
Okanagan. Their small-acreage operation, raising roasting chickens and turkeys, emphasizes
soil building through intensive rotational grazing on glacial till. The farm mentors satellite farms
and regional meat processors while directly supplying more than 500 households in the
Thompson–Okanagan area.