Tickets for Toronto Premiere of “To Make a Farm” now available online
Tickets $12 on-line or $13 at the door.
Recording of Healthy Food, Healthy Living: Strengthening Local Food Solutions in Healthcare Now Available!
On May 15th, Food Forward and Sustain Ontario brought together Health Care innovators to share the successes and challenges they’ve experienced in introducing local foods to patient menus and experiences.
Healthy Food, Healthy Living: Strengthening Local Food Connectons in Healthcare from Sustain Ontario on Vimeo.
Note: Audio levels improve after about 10 minutes of the video. Read more to see the presenters’ powerpoint slides.
Ecological Farmers of Ontario Summer Tour
On July 19-21, 2012, join us on a summer bus trip to Rodale (3 days/2 nights). We will participate in the Rodale Institute Annual Field Day where speakers will present research information and a tour of their research farm.
We will also visit include several farm stops in New York and Pennsylvannia, including Eric and Anne Nordell’s vegetable farm and Steve Groff’s Farm to discuss cover crops and crop management systems.
Cost is $175 for members ($220 for non-members) plus meals and accommodation. Call the EFO office, 519-822-8606 or 1 877 822-8606 to register. Registration deadline June 15th, 2012.
Food Hubs: The Brazilian Experience
Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Time: 7-9pm
Location: FoodShare Toronto, 90 Croatia St, M6H 1K9 (Lansdowne or Dufferin TTC)
Join FoodShare executive director Debbie Field as she reports back on her trip to Brazil to study its revolutionary food programs, and the papers she presented at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting.
The event is free and snacks will be provided.
For more information please contact Robyn Shyllit: robyn@foodshare.net, 416.363.6441 x282.
Open Call for Student Presenters
On August 17th, 18th, and 19th, student leaders from across Canada will descend upon Hart House at the University of Toronto to discuss the Future of Food on Campus.
In preparation for hosting the National Student Food Summit 2012, Meal Exchange is currently hosting an open call for student leaders to relate their experiences in being involved with interesting and innovative student food projects. If you or any students you know fit this bill, please feel free to contact us with information about that student food project by accessing the form provided in the link below.
For more details, visit here.
UN envoy blasts Canada for ‘self-righteous’ attitude over hunger, poverty
Canada needs to drop its “self-righteous” attitude about how great a country it is and start dealing with its widespread problem of food insecurity, the United Nations right-to-food envoy says.
In a hard-hitting interview this week with Postmedia News, Olivier De Schutter also blasted Canada for its “appallingly poor” record of taking recommendations from UN human-rights bodies seriously.
De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, has been on an 11-day mission to Canada, his first to a developed country.
For further details, visit here.
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