Today we are thrilled to have received official Local Food Plus certification. Local Food Plus (a.k.a. “LFP”) is an award-winning non-profit organization founded in Toronto in 2006 by broadcaster, teacher, sustainable food crusader Lori Stahlbrand. The organization certifies local farmers and food producers who meet LFP standards of environmental, social and economic sustainability.
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I found a lot of supportive language in our policies. That’s where I came up with the idea of the ‘Good Food Gaps’: Ontario has all these environmental, social, agricultural and health promotion policies that talk about all the great local food object that we’d like to achieve, but we’re not seeing those initiatives supported on the ground.
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Greenbelt President Burkhard Mausberg describes greenbeltfresh.ca as a “dating site” with “facebook pages” that profile over 600 growers and producers surrounding the city.
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