Food

Food Security refers to the availability to food and one's access to it.

Organic Foods are produced according to certain production standards. If you live in the GTA and are looking for great locations to purchase Organic Foods, check out our online directory for a bunch of great stores within Halton!
Also, check out local Famers' Markets! www.farmersmarketsontario.com/Markets.cfm
Here is another set of great websites to get some more information on organic foods:
– Organic Agricultural Centre of Canada:  www.organicagcentre.ca

Food Miles is a term which refers to the amount of miles food travels before it gets to your dinner table. Critics of food miles point out that transport is only one component of the total environmental impact of food production and consumption. Explore the websites below to find some great discussions and information on food miles:
– Fighting Global Warming at the Farmers' Market: http://www.foodshare.net/resource/files/foodmilesreport.pdf
– Life Cycles Project Society: http://www.lifecyclesproject.ca/initiatives/food_miles

100 mile diet: When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1,500 miles. The 100 mile diet is a challenge to North American's to eat food with ingredients that come from within 100 miles from their homes. Use these websites to help you take the 100 Mile Challenge!
– The 100 Mile Challenge: http://100mile.foodtv.ca
– Food Routes (Where does my food come from?): www.foodroutes.org/faq10.jsp

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• 7 September 2011 : Burlington Green Receives Healthy Communities Fund Grant (No Comments)
  

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• 27 August 2011 : Local environmentalist lives the talk (No Comments)
  

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• 17 August 2011 : Whole Foods Opening at Square One (No Comments)
  

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