THE LATEST FROM FOODSTOCK: More than 80 renowned chefs – including Jamie Kennedy of Jamie Kennedy Kitchens, Rocco Agostina of Enoteca Sociale, Anne Yarymowich of FRANK and more – are now on board Musical acts to include Jim Cuddy, Sarah Harmer, Hayden and Cuff the Duke. More are being added every day
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The week of October 15th-22nd, 2011 is officially Organic Week in Canada, an initiative led by Canadian Organic Growers and the Canada Organic Trade Association. The annual event was created last year to celebrate the national Organic Products Regulations and the Canada Organic logo that became legal on June 30, [...]
The new documentary To Make A Farm by filmmaker Steve Suderman is premiering at the Vancouver International Film Festival on October 7th and 8th. You can find details and see clips at http://tomakeafarm.ca/.
The documentary follows several new farmers, including Jeff Boesch and Leslie Moskovits from Cedar Down Farm and Tarrah [...]
REGISTER NOW at http://bringfoodhome.com/ for the “can’t miss” food conference of the year. Bring Food Home offers great opportunities for learning and networking for those engaged in building a more just and sustainable food system for Ontario.
And the first day of the conference includes a bunch of awesome
Farmer-to-Farmer Training workshops [...]
The McVean Farm open farm day was held on July 24th from 11 am to 3 pm. There were farm tours, tractor rides and produce on sale. It was attend by approximately 100 people from the Brampton area and beyond. The guests walked around the farm and interacted with our [...]
Sunday August 28, 3 – 8pm
McVean Incubator Farm, Brampton
Chef Yasser Qahawish will once again bring together a group of talented chefs to prepare a unique and delicious 4-course family-style feast cooked over charcoal.
The meal will feature the amazing diversity of fresh produce from the [...]
From chef Dan Barber’s presentation on ecological aquaculture (“How I Fell in Love with a Fish”) to Britta Riley’s Window Farms Project, which digs into ideas of collaborative innovation (or what she calls R&D-I-Y), this past weekend’s TEDx Manhattan conference all about Changing the Way We Eat was full of ideas worth sharing about changing the [...]
After a whirlwind weekend at the Guelph Organic Conference, a couple of us at FarmStart attended the 20th Annual PASA Farming for the Future Conference that took place in State College Pennsylvania from February 2nd to 5th. PASA stands for the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. Similar to our
Most of the time, I believe we, at FarmStart, can help to change our food system, one new farmer at a time.
But there are moments when I am reminded that there are very serious political, corporate and ecological issues that we need to address and to raise our voices against together. [...]
Guelph Organic Conference
January 27-30, 2011
Highlights of the Upcoming Guelph Organic Conference for New Producers and/or Prospective Farmers
Please visit the conference website for the full program and registration details. Lots of great learning opportunities for beginning farmers!
1) Canadian Organic Growers offers Crop Planning [...]
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