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

Get Exceptional Green Documentaries in Hamilton Guaranteed

06Apr10

The 3rd Annual Environmental Film and Arts Festival is happening this April 7-24, 2010. And it has an exceptional line of hard hitting docs you’ll want to see. Organized by Francesca Trifone and her partner it promises to be a powerfully informative week for locals and visitors alike.

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Tags: bottle, documentaries, environmental, Food, Hamilton, Movies, oil, Ontario, sharks, water

Announcing the FoodCycles Membership and CSA: 2010

25Feb10

Are you interested in fresh, local and organic, chemical free food? Do you want to build a movement for real food and real change in Toronto? Are you ready to build a stronger community and environment through food and farming — in small and large ways? Then get a FoodCycles membership, do volunteering or get a CSA harvest share.

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Tags: Toronto, Food, local, Food Security, CSA, Urban Agriculture, FoodCycles, Compost, city farming, News, cycles, worm, vermicompost, market garden, Downsview Park, nonprofit, not for profit, Social Enterprise, community shared agriculture, membership

Get the Truth About GM Foods: GMWatch

16Feb10

Keep up to date with the latest news on the issue of genetically modified (GM) food and crops and find out about the deceptive PR campaigns being used to promote GM worldwide. Check out GMWatch on Facebook.

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Tags: Food, genetic engineering, genetically modified organisms, GMOs, LMOs, nonprofit

Get Down with DIRT! (the Movie)

07Jan10

FoodCycles (http://foodcycles.org) is hosting one of the first largest screenings of the award winning DIRT! the Movie in Toronto at Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor St W; map) on Thu, Jan 28, 2010 (6:30-8:30 PM). Dirt! the movie tells the amazing story of the earth we stand on everyday and how we depend on it for life. In addition, FoodCycles is fundraising for its education work. Tickets will be available online and at the door on a sliding scale of $10-20. There will be a reception at 6:30 PM and the movie will start at 7 PM and end at 8:30 PM. You can buy sprouts, vegetable earrings or memberships during the reception.

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Tags: climate change, Compost, conflict, dirt, Dirt! the Movie, environmental impacts, film, Food, FoodCycles, land, microbes, microorganisms, Movies, Soil, Soil Management, video

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

FoodCycles Officially Ignites Its Toronto City Farm

14Sep09

Join FoodCycles, Toronto’s first city farm (http://foodcycles.org), for their official launch party at Parc Downsview Park on Friday, October 2, 2009. The even

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Tags: celebration, city farming, Compost, cycles, Downsview Park, Events, festivity, Food, Food Security, market garden, News, Toronto, Urban Agriculture, vermicompost, volunteer, worm

World Food Is Running Dry for Too Many

11Jul09

Last year the skyrocketing cost of food was a wake-up call for the planet. Between 2005 and the summer of 2008, the price of wheat and corn tripled, and the price of rice climbed fivefold, spurring food riots in nearly two dozen countries and pushing 75 million more people into poverty. But unlike previous shocks driven by short-term food shortages, this price spike came in a year when the world’s farmers reaped a record grain crop. This time, the high prices were a symptom of a larger problem tugging at the strands of our worldwide food web, one that’s not going away anytime soon. Simply put: For most of the past decade, the world has been consuming more food than it has been producing. After years of drawing down stockpiles, in 2007 the world saw global carryover stocks fall to 61 days of global consumption, the second lowest on record.

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Tags: corn, crisis, famine, Food, grain, hogs, hunger, Jeffrey Sachs, maize, Malthus, Millenium Development Goals, Millenium Villages, pigs, pork, poverty, security, shock, sovereignty, soybean, wheat

Breaking Ground: 2nd Farm Work Gig Revs Up

04Jul09

Looking for some exercise and stress relief? Need something extra to do while vacationing close to home? Or looking to kill time between gigs? Well there’s plenty to do right here at the FoodCycles farm (http://bit.ly/ATb3G and http://bit.ly/YDDfp).

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Tags: Agriculture, city, Compost, cultivation, Downsview, farm, farming, Food, FoodCycles, garden, growing, horticulture, News, Park, pdp, urban

Respect Farmworker Rights, Chipotle!

27Jun09

Last week, leaders of the food justice movement — – including Eric Schlosser and Robert Kenner, producer and director of the hard-hitting new documentary ‘Food, Inc.’ — sent a strongly worded letter to Chipotle, the fastest growing company in fast-food, demanding that they live up to its claims of ‘Food with Integrity’ and ‘work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers as a true partner in the protection of farmworkers’ rights.

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Tags: Eric Schlosser, farmworker, Food, Food Justice, human rights, immokalee, labour rights, migrant labour, rights, Robert Kenner