Market goers to the Orangeville, Inglewood, Erin and Brampton Farmers’ Markets are eagerly buying Soup Girl products at their weekly markets. Retailers across the Golden Horseshoe and beyond are now carrying Soup Girl products. Let’s meet the force behind this flourishing food business: Jennifer Clark. In 2008, Jennifer was hired by...read more
Food Entrepreneurs: Building Ontario Innovation One Product at a Time, is a 2-day conference coming to Barrie on March 3rd & 4th, presented by Georgian College, in partnership with the Agri-food Management Institute (AMI), local municipalities and economic development partners, the County of Simcoe, and the Ontario Ministry of...read more
Starting a Food Business Wednesday, January 27, 2016 9 a.m. – 12 noon Tony Rose Memorial Sports Centre, Dufferin Room 6 Northmen Way, Orangeville Presented by Orangeville & Area SBEC If you are thinking of going into a food business and want to know where to begin, this workshop...read more
It’s a Winter Wine Wonderland this month in Niagara, with the next three weekends celebrating Ontario award-winning icewine. With an evening gala, ornate ice bars, cheese seminars, ice skating and winery tours, the 21st Annual Niagara Icewine Festival will see a range of decadent events popping the cork on...read more
The anticipated report from the Coordinated Land-Use Planning Review Advisory Panel has been released, Planning for Health, Prosperity and Growth in the Greater Golden Horseshoe: 2015 – 2041. The 177-page report to the provincial government makes 87 land-use recommendations, focused on how to build more complete communities in the...read more
Ecosource and Roots to Harvest have just released a report, Alternative Avenues to Local Food in School: Ingredients for Success by Multiple Authors, through the Alternative Avenues Project — a collaboration with students, teachers and school board representatives in Durham Region, Peel Region and Thunder Bay, with support from the Ontario Edible Education...read more
“Make mother nature work for you,” Eric Bowman told a visiting Durham College Horticulture class on his farm last month. The 2-year Food and Farming program, based out of the Whitby Campus — home to the college’s Centre for Food (CFF) — comes as part of the school’s vision...read more