The Golden Horseshoe Food and Farming Alliance’s Serving Up Local project celebrated Local Food Week by igniting conversation around getting more local and protein-dense meats on the plates of long-term care home residents. VG Meats, located near Simcoe, Ontario, hosted the discussions at their processing facility and cattle farm,...read more
When you see baskets of the vibrantly delicious, bright red strawberry at the market, you know summer is officially here. Packed with vitamins, fibre and antioxidants, Ontario strawberries aren’t just bursting with flavour, they’re also highly nutritious. Of course, the fresher, the better; and you can’t get any fresher...read more
Ontario’s burgeoning Farm Boy chain is continuing to expand its fresh, locally-sourced market experience, bringing a new location to Toronto this fall. The new 20,000 sq. ft. Farm Boy store will bring 150 new jobs to the Etobicoke community, along with its signature farm fresh produce, butcher quality meats,...read more
Nestled in the heart of Niagara’s rich wine and culinary country, at Niagara College’s Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus, the Canadian Food and Wine Institute (CFWI) provides students with valuable hands-on experience and academics in all aspects of food, wine, beer and artisan distilling. Five years ago, the College’s Research & Innovation division...read more
The actions we take each day, as the saying goes, are a vote for the kind of world we want to live in. Dedicated activists, then, are the ones making sure their daily votes really count. And this, of course, includes some notable movers & shakers casting their vigorous...read more
White Feather Farms Inc., owned by the Schillings Family in Durham Region, recently held an open house to showcase their newly-constructed egg laying barn with enriched housing — a more spacious alternative to conventional housing. “The housing system that we chose is an enriched colony,” explains Hubert Schillings. “This...read more
It started out as casual chats about local food security issues between passionate community members and professionals that endearingly called themselves the “food gals”. Fast forward to joining together as a coalition of community agencies, partners and community volunteers: the Headwaters Food and Farming Alliance (HFFA) is proud to...read more