Week of February 18th

Continued CAAP research on import replacement
Meeting with Matt Holmes of COTA to explore a national Growing Forward project to promote domestic consumption of organic food
Conference calls with the Farm and Food Finance team, Bring Food Home planning committee
Meeting with CBAN and other stakeholders on the impending “RR Alfalfa Co-Existence Strategy”
Meeting with OCO team led by John Devlin (Co-Farmer Board Member) to discuss our invitation from OMAFRA to submit a full proposal for the New Directions program- our project will look at BMPs for adapting to climate change and barriers to uptake
Presented at the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Conference’s organic stream on the state of Ontario’s organic sector and opportunities for import replacement as part of our CAAP project deliverables
Eco Farm Day – OCO had a booth and co-hosted Richard Wiswall with Ecological Farmers of Ontario