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Week of September 3rd, 2012

Prepared briefing document for Board Member Tom Manley to participate in Growing Forward 2 final consultations prior to FPT Ministers’ meeting next week. Hosted MPs Harold Albrecht and Ben Lobb on a two-farm tour. Christian And...

MORE RESEARCH NEEDED TO ADDRESS THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF ORGANICALLY GROWN FOOD--

A recent study in the latest volume of Annals of Internal Medicine has received a lot of media attention across North America over the past few days. The University of Stanford Study reviewed a total of 240 studies involving organic...

Ontario Organic Dinner Party Series

Join us in these exclusive “on-farm” dinner experiences! Only 40 seats will be sold to each event! They’ll go fast, so register your seat today to ensure you don’t miss out. Click here for full details! Enjoy a 3-course organic meal...

The Cost of Doing Business in Agriculture

By Mark Wales, President, Ontario Federation of Agriculture -August 24th, 2012 Some Ontario farmers, like their colleagues across parts of North America, are bracing for meagre returns on their investment this growing season. Crops...

Researching Ontario’s Diverse Organic Food System

Diverse and Resilient: Ontario’s Organic Food System When it comes down to it – all decisions we make are a guess about the future. The harder our world is to predict, the harder it is to make good guesses. This new series of reports...

Organic Farming a Way to Reduce Alarming Algae

By Mary Ellen Wales, M.Sc., Organic Council of Ontario A recent survey of lakes across Canada shows high levels of a dangerous toxin. The highest levels of the toxin were found in Manitoba and Alberta, CBC reported today. The toxin,...

Food: The Key to Rural Urban Connectivity

By Sarah Dobec, R.H.N. Connection. It happens everyday. Sometimes it’s when you finally figure out how to assemble the shelf, or perhaps when you realize that your new boss is your neighbour’s brother-in-law or when you learn a life’s...

Supporting Local is More Important than Ever!

BY JODI KOBERINSKI, Executive Director, Organic Council of Ontario So how will the worst North American wide drought on record impact the availability and price of products in Ontario? OCO asked Jennifer Pfenning, Vice Chair of the...

Hardworking growers of great food need our support- Why we need and support local food.

By Mary Ellen Wales, M.Sc., International Agricultural & Rural Development Economics. This weekend when I opened up my laptop and browser for my routine news check, a commentary entitled “Take the romance out of farming and ditch...

Organic Can Feed the World

More and more food is being produced organically these days, while more and more shoppers are filling their carts with organic items. It seems that the organic movement is here to stay and may even one day no longer be called a movement,...

Growing Good Food Ideas: Organic Food Production in Ontario

Ever wonder about what the folks who grow Ontario’s great organic food are thinking? Check out this great video put together as part of Sustain Ontario’s Growing Good Food Ideas project! The video was made by Powerline Films...

OCO Activities 2011

2011 was an extremely busy year for the council. We traveled across the province on the Ontario Organics Roadshow, kicked off several research projects, helped launch the Foodland Ontario Organic logo, started the Marketing Ontario...