On March 1, 2016, The Programme Officer of RUAF Foundation (Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture & Food Security), Henk Renting visited Waterloo Region as part of his tour of the City-Region Food Systems Project. The City-Region Food Systems Project is funded by the CARASSO Project, FAO and Wilfrid Laurier University Centre Sustainable Food Systems. The project is currently conducting research in seven cities around the world (Utrecht in the Netherlands, Kitwe & Lusaka in Zambia, Medellin in Colombia, Quito in Ecuador,Colombo in Sri Lanka and Toronto Canada ). Femke Hoekstra, a researcher at RUAF Foundation & Ivo Haenen, an independent consultant in urban agriculture, accompanied Henk to Martin’s Family Fruit Farm (Waterloo) & Mapleton’s Organic Diary Farm (Moorefield) as part of their ongoing study on City-Region Food Systems.

Mapleton’s Organic Dairy Farm

Martin’s Family Fruit Farm