The Cornell Small Dairy Team has released a series of new resources to help small dairy farms. Although some of these resources are specific to the New York area, Ontario farmers may find the following case studies to be of interest.
Small Dairy Case Studies: Highlights unique solutions of how small [...]
April marked the start of the Ecological Market Gardening, and Ecological Livestock Skill Building Farm Tours. April’s Market Garden Tour featured Caitlin Hall of re-root organic farm. Caitlin was a terrific hostess, welcoming sixteen of us out of the drizzly rain into her cozy farmhouse near Harriston ON. Everyone packed in around the fireplace [...]
March and April have been busy months for FarmStart’s Training and Resource Intern Rebecca Hodges. She has been attending tours and workshops left right and center! Here is her account of the two workshops she attended!
Buying a Farm Workshop
I was just blown away by the Buying a Farm Workshop! Held at the [...]
By Vandana Shiva The Indypendent, February 12, 2012
The seed is the first link in the food chain – and seed sovereignty is the foundation of food sovereignty. If farmers do not have their own seeds or access to open pollinated varieties that they can save, improve and exchange, they have no seed sovereignty – and [...]
By Emelie Swackhamer Beneficial insects do a lot of pest management naturally, with little help from us. Many people are interested in having populations of beneficial insects inhabit their fields, high tunnels and greenhouses.
Beneficial insects do a lot of pest management naturally, with little help from us. Lady beetles, syrphid fly larvae, [...]
by Kevin Hursh FCC Express, April 13, 2012
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Farm Credit Canada President and CEO Greg Stewart introduced a new loan program called the Young Farmer Loan at a media conference in Saskatoon yesterday.
“This new loan offers qualified producers who are under 40 years of age loans of up [...]
Would you like to see a coordinated approach to food policies and programming in Ontario? How could we get there? How about a comprehensive, coordinated strategy? Over the last couple of years, a team of organizations has been working on creating a Strategy for Healthy Food and Farming, and they want your help!
Between April [...]
Powerline Films has been traveling across Ontario gathering stories of people and places that are transforming the future of food. Created in partnership with Sustain Ontario and more than a dozen partners, these videos shine light on good food ideas from many regions of our province. Informative, beautiful, and engaging, these videos are sure to inspire.
By Michael McCarthy The Independent, April 6, 2012 A commonly used nerve-agent pesticide is the likely culprit in sharp worldwide declines in honey bee colonies in the last five years, a scientific study claimed yesterday.
Imidacloprid, one of the neonicotinoid family of pesticides introduced over the past 15 years, is likely to be [...]
FarmStart farmers can receive assistance through the seed capital program to purchase seeds, small tools and other equipment. This “pass on the gift” concept, introduced by Heifer International (one of our funders), requires new farmers who receive this funding to pass on the value of the assistance they receive as a gift to another [...]
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