What do an agricultural advocate, a US logger and an urban media specialist from Toronto have in common?
They will all be presenting at this year’s AGCare/Ontario Farm Animal Council (OFAC) speakers’ program, which will focus on advocacy, outreach and the social license to farm.

One of the most read posts on this blog continues to be one that I wrote about a year and a half ago, called “The true story of KFC chickens”.
I had been a part of an annual food writer tour run by AGCare and the Ontario Farm Animal Council of a farm in the [...]

Farmers can safely dispose of their obsolete pesticides, unused animal health products and used sharps at collection sites across Ontario this week.
The CleanFARMS blitz program starts tomorrow and will run until October 22 as part of an Ontario government-supported Great Lakes Basin water quality initiative that offers farmers a free, safe way to recycle and [...]

A series of hiking trail signs highlighting environmental accomplishments by farmers are being unveiled today in the Greenbelt.
The signs have been installed along popular hiking trails in the Greenbelt – an area of permanently protected farmland, forests, wetlands and greenspace in southern Ontario – as a way of showcasing the many environmental advancements made by [...]

The Holland Marsh area north of Toronto was the setting for a farm tour with Toronto area food writers in early June.
A group of about 30 food media and home economists – involved in everything from writing articles to recipe testing to authoring cook books – spent the day experiencing Ontario food and farms.

Local food is in, the 100 mile diet is cool and we’re being advised to buy in season fruits and veggies to both be healthy and reduce the carbon footprint.
But what do Canadians really think about food, farmers and farming?

Farmers sometimes get a little upset at how their livelihoods are depicted in urban media and on the Internet. They feel their side of the story isn’t being told, which leads consumers to have unfair or incomplete notions of food and farming.
For the most part, farmers are too busy farming and often, activist groups are [...]