This summer, the Holland Marsh Growers’ Association (HMGA) is releasing a series of seven videos that highlight the area’s unique farming environment. A new clip will be showcased each week, building up to a major announcement from the HMGA in mid-September. The Holland Marsh, Ontario’s ‘soup and salad bowl, not...read more
It is now midsummer, and the peri-urban areas of the Golden Horseshoe are ripe with locally grown food, along with a bounty of crafted food products. At the peak of the growing season with vibrant farmers’ markets occurring almost daily, it is hard to imagine difficulty finding locally sourced...read more
Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe is the star of the show in this episode of Off the Beaten Palate, the food and travel television show hosted by Michael-Ann Rowe on PBS. The episode, now available online in its entirety, is part of the show’s “Discover Canada” trilogy that premiered on DPTV...read more
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
In 2012, the Golden Horseshoe Food and Farming Alliance released a 10-year Action Plan designed to strategically guide the vision for cross-sectoral development of the local food and farming cluster that thrives in this unique environment. Comprised of the Regions of Durham, Halton, Niagara, Peel, York and the Cities...read more
The Growing Good Food Ideas video series, created in partnership with Sustain Ontario, Powerline Films, and more than a dozen partners, shine light on good food ideas from many regions of Ontario. A number of members of the Golden Horseshoe Food and Farming Alliance and the Greater Toronto Area Agricultural...read more