Get To Know Your Roundtable: Patrick Rittinger
2 min read Patrick Rittinger Your Waterloo Region Food System Roundtable is comprised of a group of representatives from key sectors and interests of the …
Get To Know Your Roundtable: Susie Turner
2 min read Susie Turner Your Waterloo Region Food System Roundtable is comprised of a group of representatives from key sectors and interests of the …
What is food system complexity and why it is important?
4 min readWritten by Alex Glaros Combing the produce aisles at a supermarket in the dead of winter, it is hard not to marvel at …
Chandler-Mowat: where the moms show up and just cook!
3 min readWritten by Rachael Chong Collaborative Beginnings The Chandler-Mowat Community Garden exists on the land of the Chandler-Mowat Community Centre. Chandler-Mowat is a high-density …
Farming in the Urban Shadow
8 min readWritten by Marc Xuereb by Greg MercerThe Record, January 7, 2012http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/650876–farming-in-the-urban-shadow WATERLOO REGION — Think you’ve got commuting problems? Try driving a lumbering …
The other end of the food chain
4 min readWritten by Steffanie Scott So-called ‘waste’ is the oft-forgotten other end of the food chain. But it’s a critically important resource, if cycled …
KISS — Keep it Small — Sweetie!
9 min readWritten by Theresa Schumilas My experience in talking to eaters is that most people are naive about farm scale. When we talk about …
Addressing Local Food in the Provincial Policy Statement
2 min readWritten by John Lubczynski The Provincial Policy Statement, issued under the Planning Act, sets out the Province’s key policies concerning land use planning in …
Recess on the Local Food Act
5 min readWritten by Hayley Lapalme The original version of this blog post said that Bill 130, Local Food Act, would go dormant with legislature …
Groundbreaking research on the health impacts of GMOs
3 min readWritten by Taarini Chopra Genetically-Modified Organisms (GMOs) are in the news again. A team of French researchers has just released the results of …