BY JOHN BONNAR Rabble FEBRUARY 28, 2012 Occupy Gardens Toronto that held a Seed Exchange outside the Toronto Stock Exchange on Monday. Find out more    Fresh Food for all Forever ...

Rural Voices Network launches the 'Let your voice be heard' News release from Rural Voices Network- February 15, 2012 Guelph – Your Voice is important to rural Ontario!  This truth is the basis for the participant driven survey distributed to over 10,000 rural residents in Ontario.  The Rural Voices ...

By Jennifer Bain Toronto Star February 8 2012 An off-the-cuff remark by Galen Weston at the Canadian Food Summit has enraged the farmers’ markets community and local food lovers. “Farmers’ markets are great. . . ,” Weston said Tuesday during a speech to about 600 people at the Metro Toronto Conventio...

FAO paper published during UN Climate Change Conference highlights food-secure futureFAO News release 29 November 2011The global food system needs to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels to succeed in feeding a growing world population, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said today...

By Valerie Hauch Toronto Star November 25 2011 Justice Peter Tetley told a courtroom Friday he knows there are many people in the province and country and “in my own family who consume raw milk.’’ And there may be “frailties in the current laws as far as the distribution of raw milk is concerned,” Te...

AWARE Simcoe November 23 2011 Site 41 activist Stephen Ogden will be speaking at the National Farmers Union National convention taking place November 24-26 in London. He will be participating in a panel discussion on Friday on land grabbing in Canada.  “They would like to explore parallels of o...

New Bocock chair delivers the Bentley Lecture in Sustainable Agriculture AWARE Simcoe November 6 2011  Vintage Shotyk, combining science and history with his own personal experience (ncluding his Elmvale research) to deliver a powerful vision of sustainablity. Watch the video  University of Alberta a...

The Canadian Press Nov 4, 2011 Raw milk crusader Michael Schmidt abandoned a five-week hunger strike Friday after a brief, impromptu meeting with Premier Dalton McGuinty. Read more ...

AWARE Simcoe October 18 2011Today, on the 19th day of his hunger strike, farmer Michael Schmidt is personally delivering a letter to Premier McGuinty outlining his demands.Raw milk advocate to face more charges    Health officials seize milkText of letter ...

By KATE RUSSELL Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin May 3 2011 Ontario’s rural lifestyle and the future of food drew over 150 farmers, planners and economic developers from across the province to a recent rural economies forum. The farmland preservation forum called Renewing Rural Economies was hos...