It is a historic day for municipal food policy. This afternoon, the Toronto Board of Health will endorse the consultation report, “Food Connections: Toward a Healthy and Sustainable Food System for Toronto.” Congratulations to the Board of Health, the Medical Officer of Health, the Food Strategy Steering Group and staff on their work. Lauren Baker, [...]
Foraging for foodies – thestar.com.
The Toronto Youth Food Policy Council is born.
Toronto, September 9, 2009: At the most recent meeting of the Toronto Food Policy Council, Janice Etter, Citizen Co-chair, highlighted the need for a youth voice in city policy formation while introducing the launch of North America’s first Youth Food Policy Council. There are nearly half [...]
Karen Hutchinson from the Caledon Countryside Alliance presented the success of their Eat Local Campaign to Town Council, drawing on research and experience from other jurisdictions.
The key word for Hutchinson lately appears to be ‘linkages’ – as in building linkages between farmers and consumers, or between local foods and the environment.
The Caledon Enterprise: Providing Local [...]
The Bracebridge Examiner and Gravenhurst Banner – Savour Muskoka receives $50,000 to help promote local food initiatives.
Two Around the Sound farmers were honoured with the Premier’s Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence last week.
Axel Meister, of WoolDrift Farm in Markdale, was the first dairy sheep farmer in North America. He supplies yogurt, pecorino cheese, feta and feta in olive oil to our store, as well as delicious small lamb pies.
Johannes Schneider and [...]
Sustain Ontario members The Food School (Centre Wellington District High School, Fergus), the Toronto Food Policy Council, and The Stop (Toronto) get featured in the Globe and Mail in a wonderful article on the importance of cooking and food skills. The article uses the national Slow Food meeting held over the weekend to highlight a [...]
The Grey-Bruce Local Food Project suggests that even though local food costs more, the higher price reflects the TRUE COST of food. The article outlines some interesting ideas about how the government could support small and medium farmers to supply this food.
The price of cabbage or garlic from China doesn’t include environmental costs of pesticide [...]
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