Education
Ontario’s Native Plants & Seeds Value Chain
by Thorsten Arnold Rising demand for native plants Native plants are increasingly popular with Ontario’s garden owners. Toronto had adopted a pollinator protection strategy in 2018. Since then, pollinator garden initiatives are cropping up everywhere,...
Mno Aki Land Trust: Redefining Conservation on Indigenous Terms
Mno Aki Land Trust (Mno Aki) is an Indigenous and women-led land trust model, federally incorporated in 2021 and a registered charity. In 2022, two of its founders, Becky Big Canoe and Sonia Molodecky, participated in a webinar with EFAO and Local Food and Farm...
Results of the 2022 CANOVI Trials
The Canadian Organic Vegetable Improvement Project (CANOVI) is a five-year collaborative project launched in 2018 by the UBC Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, the Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security, and FarmFolk CityFolk. The goal of CANOVI is...
The Importance of Living Soils: Vivan Kaloxilos
Vivian Kaloxilos is offering the Living Soils Intensive, a course that digs deep into the soil and shares some of the valuable – yet nuanced – knowledge that she has acquired in a 5-week online series. Here, she discusses her background, why the course is...