Common Ground Food Forum – Building a bigger table: Strengthening our relations
Posted: April 12, 2026
Categories: Events / GoodFoodBites
The Common Ground Food Forum, Building a bigger table: Strengthening our relations, is taking place June 15 – 19, 2026, in Orillia.
Registration opens Thursday, April 16, at 12 p.m. ET.
Building a bigger table: Strengthening our relations will bring four key food networks together—the Common Ground Network, Food Secure Canada, the Canadian Association for Food Studies, and Food Communities Network—in a forum focused on understanding the social relations necessary for transitioning and transforming Canada’s agriculture, fisheries and food systems to be equitable and sustainable.
Specifically, the event will bring academic researchers together with agriculture and food systems actors, including civic/community organizations, government, industry organizations, and Indigenous and settler communities, to share knowledge, forge and strengthen connections across disciplines and sectors, and seed new collaborations in food systems research and action.
The Forum will feature individual paper presentations, organized panels, roundtables, plenaries, keynote speakers, workshops, poster sessions, and an Exploration Gallery, all organized around four ‘pillars’ of social relations that underpin the Common Ground Network’s work.
These include relations between:
- People and Land
- Rural and Urban communities
- Canada and the World
- People in/and Food Systems.
Learn more and register on the Forum website here. Early-bird pricing is available until May 1, 2026.