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Events – Phoenix Garden Speakers’ Series

The Phoenix Garden Program at Her Majesty’s Penitentiary (HMP) in St. John’s was created by a group of volunteers who initially connected through the NLCAHR Research Exchange Group…

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FPF Featured in PEI Publication

We were recently written about on the site PEICanada.com, with the author wondering if PEI should have their own version of Food Producers Forum. Click here to download the article.…

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Where’s the Food?

Thousands of gardeners, farmers, foragers, fishers, hunters and homesteaders are already gathering and growing food in our local communities.  We are launching a province-wide research project to…

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CBC What On Earth

Food Producers Forum Chair Dan Rubin appeared on CBC’s What On Earth on February 27th to talk about our community-driven food security projects.…

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Agricultural Marketing Webinar Series

The Government of Newfoundland & Labrador’s Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture are offering the following webinars to provincial farmers. Getting More NL Products on Retail…

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FOOD AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

How much carbon dioxide and methane does food production, processing and shipping, and food waste add to global warming? Estimates are a fourth to a third of total greenhouse gases ……

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Upcoming ACORN Organic Conference Feb 27-28, 2022

Sign up now at https://acornorganic.org/conference/ There are in-person and virtual options to this year’s conference.  The NL in-person event is currently scheduled to take place on day 1 of…

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Support for Organic Certification Costs

A reminder that the Canadian Organic Trade Association’s Organic Conversion Support Program is available to farmers in their pre-certification phase, or increasing their acreage on an already…

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2022 – Year of The Garden

2022 has been proclaimed as the Year of the Garden, and Canada’s Local Gardener magazine is its Official English Language Magazine! All year long we will be part of the ……

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Newfoundland and Labrador Horticulture Producers Council Annual General Meeting

Newfoundland and Labrador Horticulture Producers Council will be holding their AGM and annual conference virtually this year. Mark your calendars for the evening of March 10th and afternoon of March…

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