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Local Food

Big things are hatching at the Ontario Farmland Trust

  • May 19, 2023
  • OntarioFarmlandTrust

Our mission is all about protecting the very foundation that produces a wide variety of foods that are grown locally in... Continue Reading

World Food Day

  • October 18, 2022
  • OntarioFarmlandTrust

World Food Day was, October 16th! World Food Day is a UN holiday observed annually on October 16th. It is a... Continue Reading

Agriculture in the Greenbelt

  • May 11, 2022
  • OntarioFarmlandTrust

As the weather warms, the birds are singing, the bees buzzing, and farmers dive back into their growing season. Spring is... Continue Reading

Supporting Ontario’s Flower Farms

  • November 12, 2021
  • OntarioFarmlandTrust

Cover photo by Zoe Schaeffer on Unsplash  As the weather cools down and the colourful leaves of fall start to drop,... Continue Reading

What is possible on lower classes of farmland?

  • August 16, 2021
  • OntarioFarmlandTrust

Ontario’s agricultural sector is diverse, and Ontario’s farmland is no exception. It is, in part, this diversity within our agricultural soils... Continue Reading

Ontario’s Diverse Agricultural Sector

  • July 19, 2021
  • OntarioFarmlandTrust

Ontario’s farmland is a finite and non-renewable resource that we cannot afford to lose. Farmland provides us with food, fuel, fibre,... Continue Reading

Happy Local Food Week!

  • June 4, 2021
  • OntarioFarmlandTrust

If there is one thing that everyone can agree on, it’s that there is nothing better than the taste of fresh,... Continue Reading

A Farm in Winter

  • January 11, 2021
  • OntarioFarmlandTrust

There’s nothing quite like a farm in the winter time. The sound of crunching snow underfoot. The smell of burning firewood... Continue Reading

BAKING IN A WINTER WONDERLAND

  • December 9, 2020
  • OntarioFarmlandTrust

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s time for winter apple baking! There’s simply no better way to kick... Continue Reading

THANKSGIVING: BROUGHT TO YOU BY ONTARIO’S FARMLAND

  • October 7, 2020
  • OntarioFarmlandTrust

With Thanksgiving drawing near, many people will be sitting down to large traditional Thanksgiving meals with family. During this time, it... Continue Reading