The Bring Food Home conference was a huge success, with over 350 farm and food leaders from across the province. We so appreciate those of you who travelled from far and wide – Sudbury and Thunder Bay, Ottawa and Windsor. Incredibly, most places in between were also represented.
Before I provide you with some reflections on [...]
Perspectives on good food and farming
March 10, 2010
T.O. game changers
The food picture just keeps getting bigger and bigger. First we fretted about organics and then local and sustainable, and now it’s all about the food system and the way it connects to every facet of city life. So check out the Board of Health’s [...]
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InfoGraphic: Food Subsidies: Why A Salad Costs More Than A Big Mac
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
“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
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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