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Celebrate Organic Week with us!

This year marks the 6th anniversary of Canada’s National Organic Week. From September 19th to 27th the largest annual celebration of organic food, farming and products is happening across the country. Every school, retailer,...

New Artisanal Chicken Program

The Artisanal Chicken Program - Committed to Craftmanship Chicken Farmers of Ontario (CFO) has announced a portfolio of new programs that will support expanded business opportunities for chicken farmers and offer Ontario consumers even...

Queen's Park Farmers Market 2015

On June 4th 2015, the Organic Council of Ontario joined many other commodity groups at the Queen’s Park Farmers Market to showcase the great organic food grown and processed in Ontario! Organic Council staff and board members had...

2015 Ontario Organic Award Recipients

2015 Ontario Organic Awards Now in its 5th year of celebrating excellence in Ontario’s organic sector, the Ontario Organic Awards and dinner was held on Friday April 24th 2015 at the Waterloo Inn with insightful and...

Invitation to 5th Annual Ontario Organic Awards

Join the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Glen Murray on Friday, April 24th at 5:30 pm for the 5th Annual Ontario Organic Awards. Taking place at the beautiful Waterloo Inn, (475 King Street North, Waterloo). The awards will...

Organic Farmers place 1st and 2nd as Ontarioʼs Most Profitable Acres

Challenge tests business skills, measures profitability of corn and soybean crop. Kurtis Peeters, an organic corn grower from Kawartha Lakes and producer for Organic Meadow Co-op is the winner of the Most Profitable Acre Challenge, a...

Announcing Pro-Cert's New Local Organic Certification

More certified “Local Organic” food will be available at Farmer’s Markets and organic consumer’s doorstep in Ontario in 2015! Locally grown organic produce bearing the Pro-Cert Local Organic logo means that it was produced on a small...

Dragons dig quinoa!

Local Ontario Quinoa Successful Against the Dragons on CBC’s Dragons’ Den On Wednesday, March 11th, Katan Kitchens took on the Dragons on Dragons’ Den on CBC Television. There was an overwhelming amount of interest from the Dragons, but...

Guelph Organic Conference

The Guelph Organic Conference is Canada’s largest organic gathering and a great place to learn more about organic. There are great workshops and trade show booths if you are new to organic or been working with organics for years....

Future of Organic Research in Ontario

OCO recently sent a letter to Marc Godbout, who is authoring a report concerning the future of Alfred College to be submitted to Ontario’s Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. In the letter OCO indicated our full support for...

Invitation to OCO’s Provincial Regulation Working Group

Since the establishment of the Canadian Organic Standard, organic operators in Ontario have been asking for an Ontario Organic Regulation. The current Organic Products Regulation (OPR) leaves a major loophole relating to organic claims...