SDGPR Local Food Challenge
Posted: July 28, 2015
Categories: GoodFoodBites / News from Sustain Members
How local can you go ?
This summer, the SDG&PR Local Food Challenge invites the resident of the Stormont, Dundas, Glengarry, Prescott, Russell, and Cornwall areas to ‘go local’ for 10 days. For 10 days (August 14-23), participants will pledge to choose as much local food as they can while sharing their experience on social media. The organizers have served up all kinds of suggestions for how to choose more local foods. You can go local by meeting your local farmer, trying new local restaurant or menu items, learning new cooking and/or gardening skills, purchasing foods close to home and connecting with other like-minded community members,…
In an international food world where big quantities of food are produced the most efficiently possible, the food becomes a commodity and efficiency takes more importance than quality of food. By putting local food on the menu, the SDG&PR Local Food Challenge aims at increasing awareness and interest in local food in the community, as well as creating the connections between the residents and the local food producers or vendors. This initiative makes food a personal and local experience and not a commodity.
The SDG&PR Local Food Challenge is an initiative from the collaboration of All Things Food, Transition Cornwall +, Seaway Valley Community Health Center, Growing Up Organic, Social Development Council of Cornwall and area and Eastern Ontario Agri-food Network
Go local, go social !
Think you can tackle the challenge? To take part of the challenge you just need to register online for free and share your experience : @eatSDGPR or Local Food Challange – SDG & PR – Défri des Produits Locaux ! If you register you will also receive regular event updates, tools and tricks and a chance to win some amazing local food prizes.
Follow some more local food news @SustainOntario.
For questions, ideas or concerns about the challenge, contact Local Food Challenge Planning Committee at sdgprlocalfoodchallenge@gmail.com.