Change is in the air at foodandfarming.ca and gtaaac.ca! The two websites profiling the Golden Horseshoe Food and Farming Alliance and the Greater Toronto Area Agricultural Action Committee are merging into one centralized web resource. This one-stop-shop will benefit participating members and advisors as well as other interested stakeholders,...read more
The Region of Durham is enabling the bright minds of its students by growing Durham College with the addition of a Centre for Food (CFF), currently under construction at the Whitby campus. Set to open this September, the two-storey facility with 3,262 square metres of educational space will be...read more
TORONTO, ON – Food and farming businesses in the Golden Horseshoe are front and centre in a special Ontario-themed episode of ‘Off The Beaten Palate’, the food and travel television show hosted by Michael-Ann Rowe on PBS. The episode is part of a “Discover Canada” trilogy, with the culinary...read more
Food and Farming: An Action Plan 2021, launched by the Greater Toronto Area Agricultural Action Committee and its partners, the City of Hamilton and the Region of Niagara, provides five broad strategies and numerous specific actions to revitalize the area’s food and farming cluster which contributes $12.3 billion to...read more
Golden Horseshoe Regional municipalities (York, Halton, Niagara, Peel, Durham), the City of Hamilton and stakeholders including Toronto Food Policy, officially endorse Golden Horseshoe Food and Farming Action Plan 2021. GTA AAC Chair Nick Ferri, Peter Lambrick, Chair of the Food and Farming Steering Committee, and GTA AAC Executive Coordinator...read more
Farmers wanting to advertise in the 2011 edition of the “Grown in Peel” map should make sure their applications have been received at the Region of Peel by Friday, February 4, 2011. Click the link to access the application form: http://www.peelregion.ca/planning/gip/pdf/GIP_2010-Application.pdf For questions or further information: Jelena Baker at...read more