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Office Hours
Farmer-Led Research Program Office Hours Dec 10 & 17, Jan 7 | $0
Online
The EFAO research team will be holding open virtual office hours in December and January for prospective farmer-led research applicants to ask questions and discuss their applications. If you can not make these hours please feel free to schedule an appointment with one of our research team members.
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| Webinar
‘Intro to Ecological Vegetable Growing with Ignatius Farm’ Webinar Series — Intro to Ecological Vegetable Growing
Jan 13 | $10-15 (Free for Northern or Indigenous Growers) Online
Wanting to grow your own vegetables but unsure how to start? Join an overview of how to grow vegetables using ecological principles. E.g. knowing your site, tools, site prep, planting, pest management, and harvesting.
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Webinar
‘Intro to Ecological Vegetable Growing with Ignatius Farm’ Webinar Series — Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Jan 15 | $10-15 (Free for Northern or Indigenous Growers) Online
Explore using traditional ecological knowledge to understand how Indigenous people see connections in a living world, and why it matters for the planet. Learn how traditional practices lead to resilient food systems and a connection to the land we cultivate.
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Course
Marketing Bootcamp: Strategies and Inspiration for Your Marketing Plans — Session 1: Learning and Inspiration
Jan 20 | $60-75 Online
Presenters will share marketing strategy case studies, including plans, implementation and results. Participants will leave session one with a list of prompting questions to work on their own plans before session two, with an opportunity to stay connected to coaches and peers by email.
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Webinar
‘Intro to Ecological Vegetable Growing with Ignatius Farm’ Webinar Series — Botany for Farmers and Gardeners
Jan 20 | $10-15 (Free for Northern or Indigenous Growers) Online
This webinar will provide an introduction to botany for gardeners, farmers, and foodies. Topics will include vegetable classification and why this is important, parts of a plant, and pollination.
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‘Intro to Ecological Vegetable Growing with Ignatius Farm’ Webinar Series — Soil Health
Jan 27 | $10-15 (Free for Northern or Indigenous Growers) Online
Learn properties of soils and how to maintain and build its health. We will discuss types of soil, their attributes, how to keep soil healthy and what activities contribute to degrading, maintaining, and building healthy soils.
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| | Indigenous Food Forest Program Deadline Coming Up
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| EFAO’s Indigenous Food Forest Program is accepting applications for funding, deadline is Thursday, December 18th
The Indigenous Food Forest Program equips Indigenous farmers and communities across Ontario with the funding, knowledge, and mentorship needed to design, establish, and care for resilient food forests that strengthen ecological health, food sovereignty, and cultural continuity.
If you are an Indigenous grower, farmer, or land steward interested in establishing a food forest and connecting with a knowledge-sharing community around food forest stewardship, apply today!
The Indigenous Food Forest Program is funded in part by the Governments of Canada and Ontario under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP), a five-year, federal-provincial-territorial initiative.
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| | | | One more week to apply for the Vegetable Growers Viability Program
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| | The initial intake of the Vegetable Growers Viability closes December 17th at 11:59 PM. This program helps increase resiliency of ecological farming through collective learning.
Recent, similar work done at PASA Sustainable Agriculture found:
Larger production scales bring higher incomes
Most direct market vegetable farmers are not earning a middle class income
Many of the farms involved reported that benchmarking helps them organize and review their farm finances each year as well as learn from others of similar scale and model
What will we learn about Ontario’s ecological vegetable farms to help us all forward?
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| | More Questions than Answers for Alfalfa Study
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| | With farmer-led research, sometimes the results create more questions than answers. This was true for Ken and his exploratory study on alfalfa persistence. He hypothesized that previous micronutrient applications, specifically boron, molybdenum, and sulfur would correlate with greater alfalfa stand density. However, his soil test results showed magnesium, sodium, zinc, and copper were higher in areas with greater alfalfa density.
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| | | SeedHeads Podcast: Rav Singh and Ekow Stone
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| Ekow and Rav talk about their path to farming and its challenges, why okra is such a special crop to both of them and what they hope to achieve through their okra breeding efforts, as well as what they think the future of okra farming is in Southern Ontario. Click here to listen to the episode.
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| | Canadian Organic Growers Courses
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| | | | Latest Postings:
Have an opportunity to share? We accept postings about paid employment, equipment for sale, available land, and more. Posting is free for EFAO members, and costs $10.00 for non-members. For more information, email Martina.
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| Copyright (C) 2025 Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario. All rights reserved.
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Our mailing address is:
Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario
5420 Highway 6 North
Guelph, Ontario N1H6J2
Canada
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