LOFC Network Assembly & Regional Food Hub Discussion
Posted: January 14, 2015
Categories: Events / GoodFoodBites / News from Sustain Members
Local Organic Food Co-ops (LOFC) Network, a Sustain Ontario Member, is hosting its 6th Annual Network Assembly in Guelph on February 24-26, 2015. Food producers are at the centre of this year’s conversations in an agenda structured around two days of peer-to-peer workshops and facilitated open space sessions to help support co-op businesses. The Assembly is a great opportunity to connect with owners and operators of food and farm co-operatives across Ontario, people committed to serving their communities fresh, local, sustainably produced and fairly traded food.
This year’s Assembly will kick off with a public forum on Regional Food Hub Development on the evening of February 24th. Tickets are included in the cost of registration, and can also be purchased for $20 at the door.
Location: Loyola House at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre of Guelph.
Cost: $150 for one, $280 for 2 (earlybird – before January 19)
$175 for one, $330 for 2 (after January 19)
Registration closes February 15
Who Should Come:
- staff, coordinators, managers and those deep in the operations of co-ops in the food system
- board members, committee members, and other dedicated governance-focused contributors to co-ops in the food system
- those running or involved with fledgling, start-up, emerging, or flourishing food co-ops – there’s something for everyone
- people seriously committed to starting a food or farm co-op
- allies and organizational partners of the Local Organic Food Co-ops Network
We highly encourage you to send 2 people from your co-op in order to make the most of the Assembly. Ideally you should bring one person from governance (board) and one person from operations (staff).
Visit the LOFC website to register and to access more information on workshops, submissions, sponsorship opportunities, travel coordination and subsidies.
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In addition, we’d like to share our congratulations to LOFC member Cloverbelt Local Food Co-op on the recent announcement of their successful Local Food Fund proposal. The Cloverbelt Local Food Co-op in Kenora will receive up to $20,020 to hire a marketing coordinator to increase local awareness of Dryden’s local food cooperative to ensure the continued supply of local foods in their northwestern Ontario community.