Why Local Food?
Local Food - It’s Good For People and the Planet!
From The Local Harvest 2006:
If there was one simple thing that you could do to support the local economy, protect the environment and improve your health, wouldn’t you do it? Well you can! We all can — by choosing local food. Read the full article.
Point-Counterpoint on Local Food
From The Local Harvest 2007 and From the Ground Up:
A number of concerns and criticisms have been made of local food in general. It is important to respond to those, in order to best understand the opportunities ahead. Read the full article.
A National Farmers Union Local 316 initiative, Food Down the Road: Toward a Sustainable Local Food System for Kingston and Countryside relies on the generosity of many partners, supporters and volunteers. Food Down the Road is funded in part through contributions by the Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario under the Agricultural Management Institute (AMI), an initiative of the federal-provincial-territorial Agricultural Policy Framework designed to position Canada’s agri-food sector as a world leader. The Agricultural Adaptation Council administers the AMI program on behalf of the Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario.