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Locavore News – Ontario by Elbert van Donkersgoed
December 31, 2009 Committee nixes fruit wine bill An Ontario government committee today defeated a private member’s bill to allow fruit wineries to sell their products at farmers’ market...
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Locavore Trends by Elbert van Donkersgoed
Locavore News — Trends January 4, 2010 The 2000s gave us no-carb, cupcake and eat-local trends, plus turned the Web into a giant cookbook When TV chefs make appetizers from vending-machine food...
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New local food category for Green Toronto Awards – nominations open
Nominations for the Green Toronto Awards are now open! Who’s the greenest of them all? You tell us! Nominations are now open for the City of Toronto’s environmental awards of excellence...
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Locavore events by Elbert van Donkersgoed
December 23, 2009 ***NEW***Growing Forward Information Session, January 12 Growing Forward is a five-year commitment by Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial governments to support the de...
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Locavore world news by Elbert van Donkersgoed
White House plants winter garden under row covers First, he was profiled in Men’s Health magazine. Then it was People. Now White House assistant chef Sam Kass has taken the first step to small ...
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Locavore News by Elbert van Donkersgoed
Perspectives on good food and farming Wage hike will ‘shrink’ tender fruit industry An independent agriculture think tank is predicting catastrophe for Niagara’s tender-fruit industr...
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New report highlights tools to fight hunger and fix the food system
Press Release:Â OAKLAND, CA: Just weeks after the USDA announced that one in seven Americans would go hungry at some point in 2009, a new report from Food First and the Community Food Security Coal...
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Locavore news by Elbert van Donkersgoed
Perspectives on good food and farming Fruit wineries get their day in Queen’s Park A private member’s bill allowing fruit wineries to sell their products at Ontario farmers’ marke...
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Locavore News by Elbert van Donkersgoed
Perspectives on good food and farming Welcome to Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight Scotland Food & Drink was privileged to organise and re-launch Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight 2009, an alr...
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Locavore News by Elbert van Donkersgoed
On November 29th, 4 million football fanatics from across the nation will tune in to the most watched Canadian sporting event, the CFL Grey Cup. And if a regular season football game weren’t en...
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Peterborough funding for Putting Local Food on the Table
Funding aims to put healthy food on table By ANDREA HOUSTON, EXAMINER STAFF WRITER houston@peterboroughexaminer.com For families struggling to get by on low income, eating healthy, locally produced fr...
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Everdale’s Farmers Growing Farmers Workshops
Two exciting workshops on Dec 5th at the Downsview Library – Take one or the other or take them back to back! Spreadsheets 101 – Need help getting started with spreadsheet programs like Mi...