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Locavore News by Elbert van Donkersgoed
Perspectives on good food and farming Happy Half Birthday White House Kitchen Garden Exactly six months, First Lady Michelle Obama first broke ground for the White House Kitchen Garden. At the time, t...
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Upcoming Everdale workshops
Learn more about Everdale’s upcoming FGF Farm Business Planning Course, their Small Farm Workshop series and OMAFRA’s Growing your Farm Profits workshop! 1. Farmers Growing Farmers (FGF) F...
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Locavore News by Elbert van Donkersgoed
Perspectives on good food and farming From Kraft to Craft: Innovation and Creativity in Ontario’s Food Economy There is a buzz around food, and Ontario has the opportunity to be at the forefron...
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Toronto Raises the Bar for Youth Leadership on Food Policy
The Toronto Youth Food Policy Council is born. Toronto, September 9, 2009: At the most recent meeting of the Toronto Food Policy Council, Janice Etter, Citizen Co-chair, highlighted the need for a you...
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Locavore News by Elbert van Donkersgoed
Perspectives on good food and farming Consumers pay more, farmers get less (Manitoba) While everyone’s grocery bill is a little different, research recently commissioned by Keystone Agricultural...
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Locavore Events from Elbert van Donkersgoed
Caledon’s Eat Local Month! September 12 – Whole Village Farm Tour September is Eat Local Month in Caledon, a month-long initiative dedicated to celebrating, supporting and strengthening C...
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Call for papers – Canadian Institute for Sustainable Biodiversity
Call for Papers: Submission Deadline is October 30, 2009 Proposals for oral presentations (15 or 30 minutes) or posters/informational displays are invited for the first symposium of the Canadian In...
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Locavore News by Elbert van Donkersgoed
Perspectives on good food and farming Apple growers count losses, seek help The Georgian Bay Fruit Growers group is seeking federal-provincial tornado disaster relief funds and any other help governme...
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Everdale Farm Business Planning Course
Everdale’s Farmers Growing Farmers: Farm Business Planning Course Are you ready to start farming? Do you need assistance planning a new enterprise or direction for your farm?  Thinking of tr...
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Call for Papers – Seventh Annual Conference for Social Research in Organic Agriculture
CALL FOR PAPERS The Seventh Annual Conference for Social Research in Organic Agriculture in conjunction with: The 29th Annual Organic Agriculture Conference and The Organic Agriculture Centre of Canad...
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FarmStart is hiring – Farm Manager, Training and Resources Coordinator
McVean Farm Manager Position Description Employer: FarmStart Position Title: McVean Farm Manager Position Type: full time from March- November, and part time planning in the winter Location: Brampton,...
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Toronto Food Policy Council September 9 Meeting
It’s been said that the young feel tired at the end of a meeting, and the old at the beginning (with apologies to T.S. Eliot), so it only makes sense that the best meeting you could hope for ...