Wednesday
March 21, 2012
Host
Bring Food Home 2013!
The Bring Food Home 2013 site selection
committee is looking for the next
community to host our biennial food and
farming conference. We are looking for
one or more committed community partners
to help organize the next conference. If
you are interested in showcasing the
amazing food and farming projects in your
area, please take some time to think
through the logistics and fill in a site
application by May 4th at 5pm.
If you have any questions with regards to
the process, the level of commitment
and/or what hosting involves, feel free to
contact Carolyn at
car...@sustainontario.ca
You can fill in our on-line application
form here.
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Growing
Good Food Ideas Videos Launch-Save the
Date!
After more than a year in the making,
Sustain Ontario and Powerline Films will
be celebrating our Growing Good Food Ideas
video series with an official launch in
the afternoon of April 10th in
Guelph, Ontario. Come on out
and applaud the volunteers, partners, and
supporters who made these stories possible
-- while enjoying some locally grown tasty
treats as well. This will also be your
chance to stay connected with the Sustain
community and meet like-minded supporters.
Stay tuned for more details. Check out the
videos here.
We will be sending out our official
invitation shortly.
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Municipal
and Regional Food Councils Survey
Sustain Ontario in partnership with
several academics, is attempting to
aggregate all of the current information
on Municipal and Regional Food Policy
groups. If your community has initiated a
multistakeholder food and farming
policy/advocy group, whether tied to local
government or not, we want to hear about
it! Please take some time to fill in our
survey and share any resources you can.
The results of the survey will be
published on our website and discussed in
our next municipal/regional working group
meeting. Please complete before
April 17th.
You can fill in the online survey
here. If you would like to
join the working group and/or have any
questions, please contact
car...@sustainontario.ca
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Member
Consultation-Join Now!
Over the next several months, Sustain
Ontario will be engaging our members to
help inform food policies and strategies
for the province. If you're not a member
yet, now is the time to join!
Membership is free, but is currently only
open to organizations, groups, and
businesses, but not to individuals. Join
now!
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Regional
Events
Sustain Ontario is pleased to promote some
of the regional events taking place across
Ontario this month:
March 27th Halton Food
Council Community Conversation with
Nick Saul
March 29th-30th Thunder
Bay Food Strategy Visioning Session,
Food Action Network w Joan Brady
March 31st Practical
Farmers of Ontario AGM
March 31st Regional New
Farmer Training, Sudbury Farm
ON Allicance, NFU, Eat Local Subury
April 2nd Simcoe
Food/Beverage Networking Event
Check our website for more details on
these events and others. www.sustainontario.ca
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Ontario
Backyard Hen Advocates Connect
Are you an advocate for backyard hens in
your Ontario community? Would you like to
hear what others across the province are
doing in their communities? Sustain
Ontario would like to host a conference
call to bring backyard hen advocates
together to learn from each others'
successes and challenges.
If you are interested in partcipating in
this call or know someone who would,
please contact car...@sustainontario.ca
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Community
Compost Call-Out
The Minister of the Environment is going
through an assessment of community compost
groups that are operating at a
small-medium scale and wish to have an
exemption from the Certificate of Approval
process. They are asking that these
groups fill in a questionnaire that
informs the policy process. If you fit
the above description, please contact
car...@sustainontario.ca AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE as their process is closing soon.
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