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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

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

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

  • Successfully merging social welfare initiatives with environmental concerns

  • 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

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

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

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

  • Convincing Peel school boards to buy Greenbelt food for students

  • Supporting interested Greenbelt Farmers to Go Organic

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

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

  • Developing a successful culinary tourism platform for Niagara

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • Supporting tourism initiatives including in the Niagara and Caledon areas

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

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

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

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

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

  • Contributing to greater sales of Greenbelt wines at the LCBO

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

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

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

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

 
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