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
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.
Ottawa, October 13, 2009 – If you are concerned about food, you’re not alone. A large majority of Canadians feel the same way, according to a national opinion poll released by Nanos Research and USC Canada today.
The poll, released for World Food Day (October 16), found that seven out of ten Canadians want farmers to [...]
A series of hiking trail signs highlighting environmental accomplishments by farmers are being unveiled today in the Greenbelt.
The signs have been installed along popular hiking trails in the Greenbelt – an area of permanently protected farmland, forests, wetlands and greenspace in southern Ontario – as a way of showcasing the many environmental advancements made by [...]
