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Durham Farm Fresh Marketing Association

“Savour Durham Tour: From Farm to Fare” Event

Grants Made:

$36,500 - June 5, 2006

http://www.durhamfarmfresh.ca/

A two-day event celebrates Durham farmers’ agricultural culinary tourism in Durham with farm tours and local fare. The tour reinforces the value of Durham’s local food economy and strengthens collaborations among farmers, local restaurants, B&B accommodations and others to buy, sell and promote locally grown foods.

 

The Greenbelt Foundation is

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Developing a successful culinary tourism platform for Niagara

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

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

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

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

  • 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%

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

  • 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

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

  • Supporting interested Greenbelt Farmers to Go Organic

  • Convincing Peel school boards to buy Greenbelt food for students

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

  • Contributing to greater sales of Greenbelt wines at the LCBO

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

  • Supporting tourism initiatives including in the Niagara and Caledon areas

  • Supporting food policy council in Durham to create food charter

  • 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Successfully merging social welfare initiatives with environmental concerns

 
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