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More cooking, better labelling can address food waste | Food and Farming Canada

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More cooking, better labelling can address food waste. I’ve written about food waste before: here. The statistics that are often used to quantify the shocking amount of food that we produce but end up discarding are staggering. Not only are we wasting the actual food, but we’re also throwing out the water, energy and other resources we’ve used to produce it. In Canada, the Value Chain Management Centre has found that our food waste sits at approximately $27 billion a year. Sweden and the Netherlands have...

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UG | Food and Farming Canada

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From rural Ontario to Alcatraz. Guelph grad leads garden restoration on Alcatraz I’ve long wanted to visit Alcatraz, the notorious prison island off the coast of San Francisco commonly called simply The Rock . I didn’t make it there during my first trip to the area almost a decade ago; back then, I didn’t realize you had to buy tickets days […]. February 26, 2015 Tags: Alcatraz. Christmas starts in July for Ontario flower growers. Local food love reflected in popularity of food media tour.

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local food | Food and Farming Canada

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Local food love reflected in popularity of food media tour. Ontario just marked its second annual Local Food Week. Although there were a multitude of events going on across the province, including a Foodland Ontario-run Twitter party and a one-day farmers’ market at Queen’s Park, the highlight for me was a Farm and Food Care Ontario media tour in the Ottawa area. It was a […]. June 25, 2015 Category: dairy. Grocery store shelf-labelling program comes to Ontario. May 1, 2015 Category: food. A website laun...

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Behind the scenes on a large Ontario farm | Food and Farming Canada

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Behind the scenes on a large Ontario farm. Alex Burnett, and son Darryl with wife Anita and their four young children – all of Burnett Farms – hosted Toronto area food media on their grain farm recently. I suppose some might consider what I visited several weeks ago a factory farm . Here’s what I saw, heard and learned on my visit to Burnett Farms near Orangeville, Ontario as part of the annual Farm and Food Care food media tour last month. Grain storage bin system. First, a bit of history. He was joined...

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Your chance to meet real Ontario farmers | Food and Farming Canada

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Your chance to meet real Ontario farmers. Do you wonder who actually produces our food? Would you like to learn more about who Ontario’s farmers actually are? A website launched last fall by Farm and Food Care. Will let you do just that. It was inspired by the organization’s popular Faces of Farming calendar, but also includes stories that have been written as part of other Farm and Food Care projects or by other farm organizations. Available at www.facesoffarming.ca. The website currently includes those...

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New Ontario “Asparagus Trail” launched | Food and Farming Canada

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New Ontario “Asparagus Trail” launched. I await the coming of asparagus season the way many people anticipate Christmas. Yes, I absolutely love the fresh, crisp flavour of newly harvested asparagus spears, but it’s about more than just their yummy goodness. Or the fact that they’re good for you and loaded with iron and vitamin K. To me, it also signals the beginning of the local food season in Ontario and represents just the first of the many deliciously wonderful foods that await us in the months ahead.

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From rural Ontario to Alcatraz | Food and Farming Canada

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From rural Ontario to Alcatraz. Guelph grad leads garden restoration on Alcatraz. I’ve long wanted to visit Alcatraz, the notorious prison island off the coast of San Francisco commonly called simply The Rock . I didn’t make it there during my first trip to the area almost a decade ago; back then, I didn’t realize you had to buy tickets days or even weeks in advance during peak tourist season. I was better prepared during a trip to California with my husband this past June. Her name is Shelagh Fritz.

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Happy cows don’t make headlines | Food and Farming Canada

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Happy cows don’t make headlines. Another undercover video of farm animal abuse this time on a BC dairy farm – means another black eye for farmers in the media. Those of us in farming know these terrible incidents are by far the exception and not the norm – but the many millions who see or read the bad news stories don’t. What never makes headlines are the thousands of Canadian farmers who do the right things every day when it comes to raising their livestock. Ken Schaus in front of one of his barns.

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growing crops | Food and Farming Canada

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Behind the scenes on a large Ontario farm. I suppose some might consider what I visited several weeks ago a factory farm . I’ve yet to actually meet someone who could give me a clear definition of what that term means when I’ve asked, but at first glance, the farm fits many of the notions people often tend to associate with that expression: a […]. July 2, 2014 Tags: food. Certified hay protects endangered birds. April 24, 2014 Tags: earthday. Ontario farm meeting rising demand for locally grown edamame.

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University of Guelph | Food and Farming Canada

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From rural Ontario to Alcatraz. Guelph grad leads garden restoration on Alcatraz I’ve long wanted to visit Alcatraz, the notorious prison island off the coast of San Francisco commonly called simply The Rock . I didn’t make it there during my first trip to the area almost a decade ago; back then, I didn’t realize you had to buy tickets days […]. February 26, 2015 Tags: Alcatraz. University competition helped launch Ontario soy food business. June 25, 2013 Tags: localfood. May 27, 2011 Tags: agchat. It’s ...