Growing Good Food Ideas Spotlight: Haliburton County – A Sustainable Food System

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Author: Jenn Kucharczyk

Posted: May 13, 2013

Categories: Food in the News / Growing Good Food Ideas

Powerline Films has been traveling across Ontario gathering stories of people and places that are transforming the future of food. Created in partnership with Sustain Ontario and more than a dozen partners, these videos shine light on good food ideas from many regions of our province. Informative, beautiful, and engaging, these videos are sure to inspire.

The new Growing Good Food Ideas videos from 2012-2013 were launched April 24th at an event with Premier Wynne at Queen’s Park! This second round of videos includes 23 new videos from 17 partners, exploring a wide variety of topics from forest foods foraging to food charter development. Watch all of the videos on ontariofoodvideos.ca.

The following video, part of the Growing Good Food Ideas project, highlights Harvest Haliburton’s work in promoting the development of locally grown food in Haliburton County.

Haliburton County – A Sustainable Food System from Sustain Ontario on Vimeo.

Harvest Haliburton is a grass roots, volunteer committee that supports the development of a local sustainable food system for Haliburton County through networks, partnerships and collaboration. Harvest Haliburton’s role is to raise awareness, create supportive environments and local food policies that are necessary for a local food system. The video highlights the efforts of local producers and community organizers to promote locally grown foods. In doing so, Haliburton County is able to generate seven dollars of economic activity for every dollar spent on local food. Community organizations and local producers are also working together to develop Haliburton’s self-sufficiency to reliably provide the necessary amount of nutritious food to its community at an affordable rate.

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