This week on Food For Thought, a look at how to put farmers more in touch with their local markets…and how to encourage more people to buy locally-produced foods! Here’s the mp3 audio file of the program and a couple of links: The first one is for Northwestern Ontario Community Food Security Initiatives. Jarrod Gunn-McQuillan, a public health dietician in Rainy River, talked about what the community is doing to encourage more farming in an effort to regain some food security in an area that was actually very self-sufficient before roads were pushed into the area.
Also check out the efforts of Chatham Keep Farming, a small town just north of New York City that wants to hang on to its agricultural roots.
