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2006/2007

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

Niagara College

Greenbelt Youth Leaders

The Greenbelt Youth Leaders program has been introduced by the Niagara Environmental Corps, which was created in September 2006 to increase environmental awareness at Niagara College and to empower students to solve environmental problems and build healthy communities. Continue reading

Grants Made:

$25,000 - June 1, 2007

 

Niagara-on-the-Lake Chamber of Commerce

The Greenbelt Express

The ‘Greenbelt Express’ builds public transit links from cities to recreational cycling activities in the Greenbelt and works with host communities to promote cycling tourism and the Greenbelt. Continue reading

Grants Made:

$5,000 - May 23, 2007

 

Farmers’ Markets Ontario

My Market, Certified Greenbelt Farmers’ Markets

The My Market project is expected to strengthen the role of farmers’ markets in the Golden Horseshoe’s local urban food system by creating a new model of farmers’ markets that feature 100% real farmers selling what they grow and opening four new certified farmers’ markets (with farmer-only vendors) in City of Toronto locations. Continue reading

Grants Made:

$50,000 - May 18, 2007

 

Farmers’ Markets Ontario

Promotion of fruit wine at farmers’ markets

The project promotes the sale of fruit wines at farmers markets, which requires changes to current provincial legislation. Continue reading

Grants Made:

$2,000 - May 18, 2007

 

Environment Hamilton

Eat Local Map Project

Environment Hamilton is creating an Eat Local Map, which is a directory of farms, stores, and other locations in Hamilton where residents can access locally-grown fruits and vegetables and locally-raised meats. Continue reading

Grants Made:

$15,000 - April 30, 2007

 
 

The Greenbelt Foundation is

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Supporting food policy council in Durham to create food charter

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

  • Developing a successful culinary tourism platform for Niagara

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

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

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

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

  • Convincing Peel school boards to buy Greenbelt food for students

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Supporting tourism initiatives including in the Niagara and Caledon areas

  • Contributing to greater sales of Greenbelt wines at the LCBO

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

  • Supporting interested Greenbelt Farmers to Go Organic

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

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

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

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

  • 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

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

  • Successfully merging social welfare initiatives with environmental concerns

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

  • 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

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

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

 
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