Growing Good Food Ideas Spotlight: FarmStart
Posted: April 29, 2013
Categories: 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.
The following video, part of the Growing Good Food Ideas project, profiles FarmStart, a charitable organization providing training to new farmers. All 54 Growing Good Food Ideas videos can be viewed at ontariofoodvideos.ca.
FarmStart from Sustain Ontario on Vimeo.
FarmStart is a charitable organization that provides training to a new generation of farmers. FarmStart provides someone with an interest in farming with a small test piece of land to see if farming is for them. But a piece of land alone doesn’t make the farmer. In the second and third years of farming, new farmers are given support in a start-up farm and a farm enterprise or business. Creativity in the farming world is encouraged to corner a niche market. FarmStart has also provided seed capital to support new Canadian farmers when times are tough. FarmStart supports unique farmers that come to the field possessing many different skills and backgrounds to investigate their interest in farming.