Growing Up Organic Perth-Waterloo-Wellington
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Project update May 27, 2008:
COG PWW is just getting up and running with it's second year of the Growing Up Organic (GUO) project. We have hired two outreach workers to continue contacting local farmers, daycares and other institutions in Wellington and Perth counties. As well, we have a new Administration and Marketing Coordinator who is supporting the GUO project along with the chapter as a whole.
In year one we had an exciting response to the project with 10 daycare locations and 25 local farms interested in participating in the program. It soon became apparent that we were faced with some small challenges - storage and distribution of food! Much of the energy of year one was spent helping a group of 15 area farmers develop the Local Organic Food Team Co-op (LOFT). Our goal is to begin supplying many of the interested daycares through this co-op. Stay tuned! For more information about the cooperative, click here.
We will also be delivering workshops on transition to organic production with our local partners, the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario (EFAO) and Everdale Organic Farm and Environmental Learning Centre. Stay tuned for those details as well.
Contact information:
Krista Long , GUO Project Coordinator
E-mail:
Tel.: (519) 885.9584
Sponsors:
This project was funded in part by:
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