February 5-March 21, 2013
Taste Real, Guelph and Wellington County’s award-winning regional food tourism organization, is donating $18,000 to local food access and security organizations…
http://ontarioculinary.com/news/taste-real-gives-back
The Dryden Observer carried a brief piece on our recent ‘Sustainable Communities of Food’ workshop.
published by Independent Science News
Jonathan Latham (December 3rd, 2012)
http://independentsciencenews.
Synopsis: A farmer-led revolution in agriculture is underway. Small farmers
around the world are dramatically boosting their yields and productivity by
adopting a growing system called SCI (System of Crop Intensification).
Check this video with Karen Landman talking about the Community Food Hub toolkit, from a student project at the University of Guelph:
While the scale of this program is tiny, it’s interesting to see the direction that “local food” funding is taking, south of the border. The USDA / National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s COMMUNITY FOOD PROJECTS COMPETITIVE GRANTS PROGRAM was recently announced, keep reading
This is a prototype of the new Nourishing Ontario website. Please feel free to leave helpful suggestions as posts on any page.
Nourishing Ontario is a research group that grew out of recent SSHRC and OMAFRA funded research projects, that saw more than 170 interviews conducted with community food initiatives across the province, and produced eight Participatory Action Research projects, as well as 19 case studies.
Many representatives of municipal and provincial government, public health, producers’ organizations, farmers’ markets, retailers and researchers participated in our May 2012 workshop, either live in Waterloo, or via the webinar. We presented the toolkit that came out of this research – a toolkit designed to support emerging community food projects. Our goals are to both do research with practical relevance, and extend and strengthen the network of people committed to sustainable, local food.