So your home base, your work place, and your summer getaway are all in three different areas, but your craving for fresh, local food stays with you, wherever you find yourself. What if, in these 3 different places, you want to find a specific product, or the closest market,...read more
Last year, over 186,900 lbs of local food was produced on public land in the Greater Toronto Area: the epitome of public land for the public good. And really, this TRCA land is offering much more than what pounds can measure. With roughly 15,000 hectares across the jurisdiction, the...read more
Harvest Speciality Mills is currently in the building phase of an innovative grain cleaning, milling and packing facility in Halton Region’s Burlington with prime state-of-the-art technology. The plant will offer grains, pulses and dried fruits to customers of all sizes, marketing the specialty grains via shopify, which will support...read more
The Town of Caledon has put on their green thinking cap, looking at ways to green their agriculture sector, and biogas may be just what the doctor (farmer) ordered! Biogas is fuel derived from the decay of organic matter – the organic materials are captured and processed through anaerobic...read more
Niagara is aiming to do what makes sense with food issues – work at them harmoniously: strategize to support local food and farmers, while at the same time, combat food insecurity, connecting that local food to those who especially need it. The Right to Local Food was the theme...read more
As many of you know, the province held a Co-ordinated Land Use Planning Review to develop recommendations on how to amend and improve the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, the Greenbelt Plan, the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan and the Niagara Escarpment Plan. A panel of six...read more
“The soil is, as a matter of fact, full of live organisms. It is essential to conceive of it as something pulsating with life, not as a dead or inert mass.” – Albert Howard, The Soil and Health, 1947 2015 is the International Year of Soils (IYS). Though the grand...read more