2008 “Can We Go Organic?” Videos Are Up!

13Jun10

Join Canadian Organic Growers as we explore how organics is making a difference. Who is making this vision real and how can you be part of it ? What is your role? Hear farmers, researchers, local food security advocates and community organizations discuss the state of Canada’s food system and share their positive vision for the future

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Tags: Agriculture, bartering, carbon, climate change, community, development rights, farmer, farming, Food, global warming, labour rights, land trust, local, markets, multiplier effect, organic, Toronto, trading, transport, video, Wal-Mart

Your Food, Your Choice: Grounds for Change

04Feb10

COG Toronto is holding its annual conference with an impressive line up of speakers in the organics movement including Baerbel Hoehm, the first Agricultural Minister for the German Green Party and Michael Schmidt, the raw milk dairy farmer. The event will happen on Saturday, February 20, 2010 9 am to 5 pm at the University of Toronto Conference Centre (89 Chestnut St., Toronto).

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Tags: frankenfoods, gmo, LMOs, Margaret Webb, Michael Schmidt, Organic Agriculture, organic farming, organics, Percy Schmeiser, Pfenning, raw milk, Rick Smith, Tom Manley

7 Points for Fantastic Food and Cities

22Nov09

Dr. Wayne Roberts spoke on food policy and a new vision for cities at Toledo Library in the US. As always his witty humour is always a hit. The photos he uses in the presentation are also quite insightful. Dr. Roberts also proposes hopeful solutions and answers to fixing cities and the food system. If you want the quick written summary you can read it below.

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Tags: careers, cities, colleges, Community Development, community food systems, Community Gardens, development, direct trade, economy, fair trade, Food, job, policy, public health, standard of living, urban, Wayne Roberts

Cheap Food as Charity? Shaky Foundations?

20Apr09

Sunny gives a video summary of the first 2 panels (low income food access and locally sustainable food supply) at the Ontario’s Test Kitchen Conference.

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Tags: Alison Blay-Palmer, alternative, ALUS, change, conference, Daily Bread Food Bank, distribution, environmental services, Food, GET, income, Janet Poppendieck, kitchen, land, Local Food Plus, Marin Organic, Ontario, reform, security, sink, Society, solutions, sovereignty, STOP, sustainable, Sweet Charity, system, use, video, Wayne Roberts, YuRanch

WHY ORGANIC FOOD REALLY “IS” GOOD FOR YOU

29Jan09

Growing and Eating for Nourishment, Nourishing the Future will have keynote speaker Carlo Leifert, leader of the largest, most sweeping organic food study ever done to date (http://bit.ly/171JG, http://bit.ly/gPZd). Over 30 research organizations, businesses and universities were involved in using science to get to the bottom of things. You will learn about the truth of what makes real good and healthy food at this one-day conference on Saturday, Feb 21st at the U of T Conference Centre (89 Chestnut St).

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Tags: alcohol, canning, chemicals, conference, cosmetics, farming, fertilizers, Food, Food Sovereignty, healthy living, livestock, meat, moms, mothers, organics, pesticides, pregnancy, preservation, research, Restaurants, Science, spirits, study, sustainability, sustainable, wine

Elizabeth Guillette

24Jan09

Elizabeth Guillette, a research scientist in anthropology at the University of Florida.

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Tags: 2009, COG, conference

Speaker Biographies for the 2009 Organic Conference

11Jan09

The speaker biographies for the ‘Growing for Nourishment’ Nourishing the Future 2009 Organics Conference are up and running for your viewing pleasure.

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Tags: ‘Growing for Nourishment’ Nourishing the Future, conference, event, Food Safety, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, global, lectures, local, moderators, national, networking, organic, organics, speakers

A Day with Elaine Ingham Location

18Dec08

Dr. Ingham will speak in the afternoon of Saturday, January 10 at Elmwood for Grey Bruce Farmers Week and then join EFAO all day on January 12th. Her talks on soil microbiology and soil health will be complimentary but each session will unique.

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Tags: health, lecture, management, microbiology, series, Soil, workshop

Visionary Farmers and Consumers: COG Conference 2008 Photos

27Oct08

Just uploaded some of my not as high quality photos to Flickr on the conference this year. Wish I’d done it sooner.

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Growing for Nourishment, Nourishing the Future [Conference]

19Oct08

If you care about the foods you eat, how visionary farmers grow for quality and the enormous benefits of organic then this conference is for you. And it’s time to accept the science that proves the benefits of organic food and it’s time to ACT on what we know. Share the vision, the science of organic growing.

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Tags: activism, canadian, Carlos, change, chapter, conference, consumer, EU, european, farmer, Food, growers, Leifert, organic, qlif, research, Toronto, union, visionary, wine