Ontario’s Local Food Champions

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Author: Sasha McNicoll

Posted: May 30, 2011

Categories: News from Sustain Ontario

Is your public institution an Ontario Local Food Champion? The Greenbelt Foundation Seeks Nominations for the 2012 Report.

More Ontario food is making its way into the kitchens of daycares, schools, universities, colleges, hospitals, long-term care facilities and municipalities in Ontario. Ontarioâ€™s Local Food Champions report, released last month by the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation, celebrates the local food trailblazers in Ontarioâ€™s public institutions and farm groups. Champions include:

Jaco Lokker, Director of Food Services, University of Toronto, St. George Campus and Executive Chef at 89 Chestnut Residence
Markham, First Ontario Municipality to Develop a Local Food Policy
Leslie Carson, Director Food & Nutrition Services, St. Josephâ€™s Health Centre, Guelph
Vineland Growers Co-Operative
Algoma Orchards
Rowe Farms

Ontarioâ€™s Local Food Champions has launched the nomination process for the 2012 Champions. It is open to anyone working across the agri-food value chain to increase the amount of Ontario food in public institutions. The selected applicants and nominees innovations will be celebrated by being profiled in the January 2012 Ontarioâ€™s Local Food Champions report. Nomination forms are available in the 2011 report and online.