2 Vital Meetings on Toronto City Farming!

14Jun09

Joe Nasr, food security professor and an executive member of MetroAg gives us the heads up on 2 very important meetings on establishing urban agriculture in Toronto. Please forward to everyone you know who’s part of the movement (friends, family, allies, partners, interested parties)!

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Tags: city farming, city hall, City of Toronto, environmental movements, Events, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, growers, Meetings, Ontario, social movements, Toronto, Toronto Urban Growers Union, TUG, urban, Urban Agriculture

Less Means More: Get Your $ Worth with Organic

08May09

Leifert wastes no time getting to his findings. Organic farming methods “are the only way forward,” he begins his talk at COG. “Even in the short term, organic is the only way to achieve acceptable yields.”

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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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Oppose Tom Vilsack’s Confirmation as Secretary of Agriculture

14Jan09

In spite of 20,00 e-mails from organic consumers and, in apparent contradiction to his announcement that he wants an organic garden at the White House, Obama has chosen Tom Vilsack, a strong bio-tech proponentsupporting genetically engineered crops, cloned animals, etc., to run the Department of Agriculture.
As you will see below, Vilsack is truly Monsanto’s boy. He pre-empted the local votes of towns and counties who had voted to disallow GE seeds!

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Tags: Agriculture, biotech, biotechnology, ethical, Ethics, food bill, Food Safety, Food Sovereignty, food system, frankenfoods, genetically modified organisms, gmo, lmo, secretary of agriculture, technology, Tom Vilsack

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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