Why a salad costs more than a Big Mac

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InfoGraphic: Food Subsidies: Why A Salad Costs More Than A Big Mac

Strategies for Tapping into Local Markets

Time: March 22– 1pm 5:30pm with a reception to follow
Location: Kemptville College

If you are an ecological farmer or a conventional farmer curious about organic production for local markets, COG has organized a symposium for you to ask questions and explore these ideas. There will be three panel presentations by experts with discussions to follow on:

1. Farmers’ Co-operative Development
2. Organic Farming
3. Organic Marketplace

“Food policy for Canada”

“It is funny how things change sometimes.

I was reminded of this recently when I received a glossy promotional magazine in my mail for one of Ontario’s farm organizations that discussed amongst other things a national food policy like they had invented the idea.”

GRANT ROBERTSON, SPECIAL TO THE DAILY OBSERVER March 9/10

2011 Nuffield Farming Scholarship

The Canadian Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust is accepting applications for their 2011 program. A Nuffield Farming scholarship is a life changing experience. Scholars receive a ‘golden key’ to the best production, management and marketing systems in every corner of the world. In addition to embracing the ‘world’s best’ in agriculture, scholars gain life-long friends form around the world, and a deep understanding, and global perspective, of the politics, cultures and challenges of world agriculture.

Art and Food Take Root at Wychwood Barns

Art and Food Take Root at Wychwood Barns
Market to Host Artistic Interventions for Food and Social Justice

Toronto, March 2010 – On March 6, the Saturday market at Wychwood Barns will be bustling even more than usual. York University students are teaming up with local groups to host community-building, artistic activities for a neighborhood that [...]

You are invited…to Sustain Ontario’s AGM

To Sustain Ontario’s first Annual General Meeting and a Taste of Waterloo Region Reception.
Join Sustain Ontario for a celebration of its first year of working towards a food system that is healthy, ecological, equitable and financially viable. Over the past year, Sustain Ontario has reached out to farm and food leaders across the province to [...]

Fruit and veg snack program a no-brainer

The pilot program in northern Ontario is the perfect launching pad for a province-wide snack program that would go a long way to improve the health of  school-aged kids.
Fruit and veg snack program a no-brainer.

Locavore news – Events by Elbert van Donkersgoed

Perspectives on good food and farming
February 26, 2010
***NEW***Eco-Farm Day 2010, February 27-28
Eco-Farm Day is an annual conference sponsored by the Ottawa chapter of Canadian Organic Growers. This year’s conference theme is “Keeping it Local and Sustainable”. While the primary audience is from Eastern Ontario there are also participants from the rest of Ontario, Quebec, and [...]

Youth food systems fair

Youth Food Fair Poster1
March 25, 5:00-9:00
University of Toronto, Wilson Hall
Are you a food-passionate youth dreaming of a career in the sustainable food movement?
The Toronto Youth Food Policy Council and University of Toronto Present the ‘Youth Food Systems Fair’ on March 25th from 5:00-9:00 at Wilson Hall, New College, St. George Campus.  From 5:00-6:30 we will [...]

Locavore News – Ontario by Elbert van Donkersgoed

Perspectives on good food and farming
February 24, 2010

Ontario Pork gets marketing powers back
In October, 2008, the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission took away the powers of Ontario Pork. Yesterday the Ontario Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Appeal Tribunal gave them back. The Tribunal’s 29-page ruling, released late yesterday, re-instates Regulation 419, which required producers [...]