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Member Events: Growing Change Field Supper and Black Creek Community Farm Festival
Everdale, TRCA, Foodshare, Afri-Can FoodBasket and Fresh City Farms are celebrating the Grand Opening of the Black Creek Community Farm (4929 Jane St.) with two back to back events: The Growing Change...
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Member Profile: Oliver’s Garden Project
When 6-year-old Oliver saw two boys digging through recycling bins and was told it was because they needed the money, he convinced his parents to give the proceeds from sales from their backyard veget...
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FoodShare: Good Food Education Training
FoodShare Toronto invites you to join them July 11 & 12, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., for their Good Food Education Training sessions, where you will have the opportunity to: – Learn first-hand h...
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Ontario looking at pesticides as possible cause of bee deaths
Concern over deaths of honeybees in Ontario has led the provincial government to look into the use of pesticides. An expert panel will specifically look at how to prevent bee exposure to neonicotinoi...
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Toronto Public Health on Menu Labelling: “Can’t Tell By Looking”
“Not even trained professionals, not even dieticians, can really tell just by looking at a restaurant menu item whether or not it’s got the kind of sodium levels that they want, the kind of ca...
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Healthy Corner Stores: Workshop Discusses Increasing Access to Healthy Food in Toronto
By: Danny Brown On Friday June 7th in the summer-deserted hallways of Ryerson University, representatives from Toronto Food Strategy, Toronto Public Health, Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC...
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Social Finance Articles – including Food, Farms, Fish and Finance
Ellen Martin has written a great article, Is it Possible to Connect Food, Fish, Farms and Finance?, briefly summarizing our recent Food, Farms, Fish and Finance Forum. Ellen takes a look at the impre...
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CFFO talks Farmland Preservation
The Christian Farmers Federation (CFFO) released an excellent profile last week on farmland preservation in their CFFO Commentary, which you can read here: Efforts to Protect Prime Farmland in Ontari...
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McConnell Foundation: New Sustainable Food Reports
The McConnell Foundation recently supported two new reports under the organization’s Regional Value Chain program, a part of the Sustainable Food Systems initiative. Both reports illustrate the ...
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Queen’s Park Farmers’ Market Pictures and Video
Sustain Ontario had a great time at the Queen’s Park Farmers’ Market last week. Whether you were able to attend or not, you may enjoy browsing through some of the Premier’s pictures ...
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Chai Kosher Poultry Closes in Toronto
With the shuttering of Chai Kosher Poultry in Toronto, Better Farming reports, Montreal’s Marvid Poultry is now the sole supplier of Ontario’s kosher chicken supply. With over 75 000 koshe...
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Welcome to our new volunteer interns & co-op students!
Sustain Ontario is thrilled to welcome 4 co-op students and 8 volunteer interns for the summer months! Shannon Oletic (University of Western Ontario), Kate Balah (Sheridan College of Design), Danny Br...