Local food

Fairlawn Avenue United Church

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Fairlawn Green Action: Local Food

Objective statement

BUY LOCALLY-GROWN FOOD by first educating ourselves, then educating the Fairlawn community and facilitating partnerships with local farmers for weekly delivery of food baskets of seasonal produce to interested consumers in the community, and advocating that grocery stores stock more local foods.

Status

The Local Food Action Team provided recommendations for working with local food box companies and local markets. We also provided a detailed display at Village Day and at Fairlawn events and coffee hour. We have published information on our web site, included information on Locally-Grown Food in our Green Tips eMails, and continue to advertise and support local organic markets in the Toronto area, in our North Toronto neighbourhood, and in Ontario cottage country.

Top 10 Sustainable Seafood
Choosing sustainable seafood is an easy and effective act of consumer power that helps protect our oceans, and sends a strong signal to government and industry leaders that they should do the same.
The Top 10 Guide to Sustainable Seafood (source: David Suzuki Foundation) helps you find the best sustainable seafood available in your grocery store. This seafood is harvested in a way that protects surrounding sea creatures and the ecosystems they depend on. Plus, these species aren't overfished so we can continue to enjoy them for years to come.

Food Boxes

Front Door Organics:
Find out about 100% certified organic produce and groceries:
http://www.frontdoororganics.com
The Good Food Box:
Top quality fresh fruit and vegetables are available directly from farmers and from the Ontario Food Terminal.
http://www.foodshare.net/goodfoodbox01.htm
Assessing the economic impacts of non-profit food distribution:
http://www.foodshare.net/goodfoodbox13.htm

Local Farmer's Markets with LOCAL produce

Many "Farmer's Markets" sell produce that is not actually local, but has been picked up at a central distribution point for imported produce. Be sure to ask!

IN OUR OWN NEIGHBOURHOOD ...

Apple Tree Market

North Toronto Memorial Community Centre on Thursdays

200 Eglinton Avenue West – 2nd floor

IN THE GTA ...

Local Markets ~ Canada’s first certified Farmers’ Market, featuring real farmers, selling only what they produce. Join close to 40 Ontario farmers selling their best fruits and vegetables: a wide range of vegetables such as: fresh asparagus, greenhouse tomatoes; rhubarb; honey; fresh bread; organic eggs; sweet potatoes; baking; Maple Syrup and Maple products; buffalo; Angus beef and, new this year, mouth-watering smoked beef on a bun.

Brick Works Farmer's Market

Wychwood Barns - The Stop's Green Barn Farmer's Market

Other Toronto farmer's markets

Appletree Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M4R 1A7

Birch Cliff Village Farmers' Market Toronto Scarborough M1N 1R7

Dufferin Grove Organic Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M6H 4B3

East York Civic Centre Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M4C 5R1

Etobicoke Civic Centre Farmers' Market Toronto Etobicoke M9C 2Y2

Evergreen Brick Works Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M4W 3X8

Fairview Mall Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M2J 5A7

Guildwood Village Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M1E 1P1

Metro Hall Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M5V 3C6

Montgomery's Inn Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M9A 1A8

MyMarket Bloor-Borden (Annex) Toronto Toronto M5S 2P7

MyMarket East Lynn Toronto Toronto M4C 1J4

MyMarket Historic St. Andrews Toronto Toronto M5V 2M5

MyMarket Liberty Village Toronto Toronto M6K 1A6

MyMarket Sick Kids Hospital Toronto Toronto M5G 1X8

Nathan Philips Square Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M5H 2N2

North York Civic Centre Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M2N 5V7

Queen's Quay Farmers Market Toronto Toronto M5J 1A7

Riverdale Farm Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M4X 1A1

Scarborough Civic Centre Farmers' Market Toronto Scarborough M1P 4N7

Sherway Gardens Farmers' Market Toronto Etobicoke M9C 1B8

Sorauren Park Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M6R 2M6

St. Lawrence North Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M5E 1C4

Stonegate Farmers' Market Toronto Etobicoke M8Y 3J1

The Stop's Green Barn Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto

Trinity Bellwoods Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M6J 2V5

University College Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M5S 3H7

Weston Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M9N 1J3

Withrow Park Farmers' Market Toronto Toronto M4K 3C6

Markets in Cottage Country

Check out the list of farmer's markets in Ontario ~ especially if you're looking for something while at the cottage this summer:
http://www.farmersmarketsontario.com/Markets.cfm

Reduce or avoid Beef

The best way to reduce global warming in our lifetimes is to reduce or eliminate our consumption of animal products.

Meat eaters are responsible for an additional 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide per person over vegetarians every year.

Livestock are responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions as measured in carbon dioxide equivalent, reports the FAO. This includes 9 percent of all CO2 emissions, 37 percent of methane, and 65 percent of nitrous oxide. Altogether, that's more than the emissions caused by transportation.

Environment impacts from the beef industry include:

cow flatulence
deforestation to expand pastures and to create arable land for feed crops
energy to produce fertilizers
energy to run the slaughterhouses and meat-processing plants
energy to pump water
and more

source: Report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Recipes

On Google, search: meatless recipes
for some great results

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Last modified: 04-Feb-2012

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