Vote for your favourite innovation!
EFAO Conference participants are invited to vote for their favourite on-farm innovation to win the 2022 Carrot Cache $1000 Innovation Prize. Voting will be open until 9PM on Thursday December 8th. The winner will be announced the week after the …
Enter to Win the $1000 Carrot Cache Innovation Prize!
The Carrot Cache Innovation Prize is back for its 9th year at the EFAO Conference! A $1,000 prize will be awarded for innovative, low-cost solutions to planting, harvesting, and managing food grown on an Ontario urban or rural organic farm. Farmers can …
Call for Curiosity 2023: Answering your on-farm questions with help from EFAO’s Farmer-Led Research Program
Learn about farmer-led research events, workshops, and other opportunities this winter.
Evaluating the EFAO’s Farmer-Led Research Program
In 2020 and 2021, Dr. Erin Nelson surveyed and interviewed EFAO’s farmer-researchers to learn about the impacts of their participation in EFAO’s Farmer-Led Research Program.
Soil Testing 101
After over a decade of trial and error, consulting with experts, and a deep dive down the rabbit hole of soil health, Evan Quigley of The Kitchen Garden Farm in Wilton, Ontario offers some advice and insights about soil testing.
Why Regionally Adapted Seed Matters
Seed is essential to the fabric of ecological agriculture and is embedded in the work we as a community of ecological growers are doing to create a better world. When thinking about why local, ecological, regionally-adapted seed matters, we must grapple with both systemic influences on seed, as well as the immensely personal relationships that are created when working with seed.