Hamilton’s Mohawk College is receiving $100,000 from the Greenbelt Fund and Ontario government to develop the first provincial local food procurement model for Ontario’s 24 colleges, purchasing local food from Ontario farmers for their cafeterias. The pilot project, announced Wednesday of Local Food Week, is expected to increase local...read more
At the end of April, Agrocrop Exports Ltd. (AEL) and their employees celebrated the groundbreaking of their new 171,000 square ft. state-of-the-art processing and packaging facility in Bolton. Champions of the export pulse industry, AEL celebrates this expansion at an opportune time in 2016, the International Year of Pulses....read more
Golden Horseshoe food businesses are leading their own way – upstream! The expression “take things into your own hands” comes to mind when learning about Jason and Tamar Oziel’s pioneering aquaponics venture based near Whitby. The husband and wife team, looking to launch new careers for themselves, found a...read more
The 2016 Ontario Climate Symposium held earlier this month in Guelph stimulated a focused discussion on the future of food in the Greater Golden Horseshoe as it relates to climate change. A wealth of knowledgeable speakers were a part of the day’s learning, with attendees splitting off into workstreams...read more
The Golden Horseshoe Food and Farming Alliance kicked off our AGM this past Monday in Toronto with a tour of Food Starter – an incubator focused on helping early-stage food processors and manufacturers grow their business. Last year, the GHFFA provided $10,000 in funding to the incubator as part...read more
It’s finally warming up, and that means another Local Food Week is on its way! This year’s celebration of local food, local farmers and thus local economies falls on June 6th – June 12th. Choose local, visit your local farmers’ markets, and rejoice in the new spring and summer...read more
The Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation are offering a professional development workshop for planners on June 13th for round two of their workshop, Agriculture and Planning for Agriculture: A Near-Urban Perspective. The goals of the training are to: increase planners’ knowledge and understanding of agriculture, trends and issues, specifically in near-urban...read more