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My neighbors have just dug up their front hedge and will be replacing it with new cedar bushes and will probably spray the area with pesticides and fertilizer along with most of the other homes on the street. The run off into the water system means that our drinking water in Sudbury will increase in pesticides and that makes its way into the food you eat. Doesn't the Earth have rights? In fact, The City of Sudbury has a Food Charter which you can download here
Thanks to the efforts of folks at Pesticide Reform Ontario is now enacting the most stringent no pesticide legislation in North America and alternates will now have to be used with exceptions for farmers and forests.
Individuals are changing their habits. Seeing the connection between climate change, greenhouse gas and global warming is not a huge step to make so why not between water quality and the food we eat? The Sudbury Soils Sample has been documenting and scientifically testing the local Sudbury area for years. One of the most high profile efforts to regreen and save the local lakes is the Minnow Lake Restoration Group.
Plenty of local initiatives are underway to protect the local foodshed -like the watershed and connected to growing and eating our local foods from local farmers. On Weds, May 21st from 4 - 6 p.m. at the Downtown Farmers Market The Foodshed project (from the The Social Planning Council of Sudbury) are holding an open meeting for youth.
This is all part of the larger campaign to Eat Local Sudburyand is a great place to find out more about the Sudbury foodshed and its implications on our health and carbon footprint. - You did know that food trucked from California to Sudbury adds to climate change right!
Local artist Will Morin will also host Aboriginal Spirituality - Food and the Earth. His work is available for viewing at ArtistsonElgin til the end of April. All in all its not easy being Green but so much is happening that sooner or later you will be Green too!
Thursday, April 24, 2008
You are what you eat!
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Thanks for the informaion on the eat local campaign. Does the Sudbury Farmers market do this?
I am a youth intern with the foodshed project and I would like to make you aware of our website foodshedproject.ca We have great resources and links about our latest projects. To answer your question Joseph the best way to get learn more about finding local produce and products is through the Eat Local Sudbury website. They have information about local farmers, information on community shared agriculture and will have a cooperative at the Market this summer. If you have any further questions please feel free to contact me at youth@foodshedproject.ca
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