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 | I’ve been blogging about food and farming for about two and a half years. Here are the top five most popular posts I’ve written on this blog during that time. Some of the earlier ones were posted before I linked this blog to Twitter, which is why you’ll see low or non-existant tweet counts on those pages. Continue reading Top five food and farming posts 
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. Continue reading Advocacy, outreach and the social license to farm This is a longer version of a post I put up last week – and this article is also printed in the Ontario Farmer this week. The last year was not a good one for agriculture on the public relations front, but a Guelph agri-food consultant still believes the industry is on the right track. And he offered some tips to help address the growing public perception issue as he spoke to a meeting of the Guelph Partnership for Innovation last week. Continue reading Farmers get some PR pointers There’s a crisis in agriculture. It’s an oft-repeated statement, one that at times comes from beef and pork farmers, and other times from the grain or the fruit and vegetable growers. In fact, it seems as though there’s always a crisis in agriculture – perhaps in different sectors at different times, but it always seems as if someone is teetering on the brink of disaster and asking for help. Continue reading Food policy could end farming crisis
There’s an interesting story from the Globe and Mail on the CTV Olympic site: a Sudbury torchbearer is involved in a local food growing project in the region. I have to admit, that concept intrigued me because I don’t usually associate Sudbury with food or with farming – more with mining. Continue reading Farming Food in the Nickel Belt Today is the day I officially move back to the country. I grew up on a farm but have lived in various cities since I left home to go to university in the mid-1990s. Now, after many years as city dwellers, my husband and I are moving to a small acreage just outside of Guelph. I’m not kidding myself about being rural – compared to where my parents still live in Grey County, I might as well be downtown Guelph and not just a mile or so beyond the city limits! Continue reading The realities of rural life
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One of 2009′s hot stories was our growing love affair with buying locally grown food – and learning how we can do more of that ourselves.
…it’s been rather quiet – ok, totally quiet – on this blog for the last week or so. I took a few long-awaited days off from blogging and working over the Christmas holidays. Mostly it was to pack and get organized for our big move this week, but also just to take a step back, recharge, rejuvenate and start to think about the year ahead.