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2005/2006

Format: 2012-02-23
Format: 2012-02-23

AGCare

Agriculture Hits the Trails

AGCare provides science and policy research on environmental and agricultural issues in Ontario, and is forming collaborative relationships between the farming and trail communities to increase awareness of agricultural stewardship. Continue reading

Grants Made:

$180,000 - June 5, 2006

 

Local Food Plus

Promoting New Markets for Greenbelt Farmers

Initiated in 2005 on a platform of farming reform to increase the industry’s viability, Local Food Plus certification system incorporates economic, environmental and social issues and opens new markets for Canadian farmers. Continue reading

Grants Made:

$1,000,000 - June 5, 2006

 

Environmental Defence

Building the Ontario Greenbelt Alliance

Environmental Defence Canada is the coordinating organization for the Ontario Greenbelt Alliance, a coalition of groups who share a common vision for improving Ontarians' quality of life and protecting valuable agricultural and environmental lands. Continue reading

Grants Made:

$600,000 - June 5, 2006

 

Durham Farm Fresh Marketing Association

“Savour Durham Tour: From Farm to Fare” Event

A two-day event celebrates Durham farmers’ agricultural culinary tourism in Durham with farm tours and local fare. Continue reading

Grants Made:

$36,500 - June 5, 2006

 

Farmers’ Markets Ontario

Project GREEN

The project increase sales, the number of farm vendors and the number of farmers' markets in the Greenbelt by recruiting new farmers diversifying products sold at markets, attracting new customers, and establishing four new urban markets. Continue reading

Grants Made:

$738,687 - June 5, 2006

 
 

The Greenbelt Foundation is

  • Creating a network of Farmer’s Markets to help improve our local food economy

  • Supporting changing the City of Toronto policy to adopt a local food purchasing bylaw for city facilities

  • Assisting in designing new policies to protect Lake Simcoe through timely research

  • Supporting the creation of new multi-cultural crops and development of ethnic local food guides in Toronto and York Region

  • Successfully merging social welfare initiatives with environmental concerns

  • Supporting the creation of an award-winning Greenbelt granola bar

  • Supporting the Credit Valley Conservation Authority to protect and restore wetlands

  • Supporting development of action plans for a variety of agricultural areas and commodities

  • Bringing thousands of Ontarians out into the Greenbelt each year through grantee activities and the Annual Tour de Greenbelt cycling event

  • Contributing $2.65 million to Greenbelt farmers to improve their operations (leveraging millions of dollars from federal sources), and to employ the opportunities of the Green Energy Act

  • Securing local food procurement commitments for Peel schools, City of Toronto, City of Markham and others

  • Engaged Hamilton schools to switch to Greenbelt food for their students

  • Supporting interested Greenbelt Farmers to Go Organic

  • Convincing Peel school boards to buy Greenbelt food for students

  • Providing grants and support to significantly increase sales at farmers’ markets

  • Contributing to greater sales of Greenbelt wines at the LCBO

  • Supporting tourism initiatives including in the Niagara and Caledon areas

  • Supporting the Ontario Greenbelt Alliance to foster strong Greenbelt Plan implementation at the municipal level

  • Increasing amount of Greenbelt food in food share program 140%

  • Funding policy changes to encourage more local food to be sold in Durham

  • Hosting the successful Tour de Greenbelt to promote Ontario’s Greenbelt as a tourism destination

  • Securing local food procurement commitments for Peel, U of T. City of Toronto Facilities and Markham

  • Funding research and analysis on greenbelts around the globe which concluded that Ontario’s Greenbelt is the most robust in the world, with a strong legal and policy framework

  • Funding visionary planning processes such as the new Cootes to Escarpment Park Management Plan, and a massive reforestation plan in Rouge Park

  • Developing a successful culinary tourism platform for Niagara

  • Participating strategically in growing the Greenbelt by working with Toronto, Peel, Halton, and Guelph

  • Reaching over 75 million by placing 220 permanent highway and regional road signs to ensure Ontarians and visitors know about this valuable protected area

  • Enhancing Farmers’ Markets, increasing sales for farmers in the Greenbelt and beyond

  • Supporting food policy council in Durham to create food charter

  • Hosted the first ever Global Greenbelts Conference in Toronto in March 2011 with speakers and delegates from over nine countries

  • Building a local food economy from developing new markets to enhancing distribution channels

  • Identifying barriers to opening markets for Greenbelt farmers and proposing solutions

  • Engaging with over 170 million Ontarians directly through our marketing, events and communications activities

  • Partnering with Harbourfront Centre to tell the story of Ontario’s Greenbelt to 12 million people via a year-long, outdoor photography exhibit

  • Creating Greenbeltfresh.ca, the leading electronic marketplace to source local, Greenbelt foods from over 600 producers

  • Funding the Holland Marsh Growers’ transition from an export, commodity focus to one that serves the local market with value- added products

  • Bridging farming and hiking interests to acknowledge environmental progress by farmers

  • Supporting the development of multi-cultural crops and training new Canadian Farmers

 
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