Green Living Show

A “Taste of Ontario's Greenbelt” area at the Green Living Show features different culinary regions in the Greenbelt and a cooking stage offers visitors the chance to learn different seasonal cooking recipes from well-known chefs. Local celebrity chefs, such as Jamie Kennedy, prepare dishes with Greenbelt-grown and produced ingredients.

Halton Eco Festival Sponsorship

The 8^th Annual Halton Eco Festival, a free, Earth Day environmental fair held Saturday, April 19 at the Glen Abbey Recreation Centre features 18 educational workshops. This year’s theme is environmental sustainability. The event raises public awareness about the importance of individual action on environmental stewardship.  In addition to the workshops, the 2008 Halton Eco Festival features two hockey rinks filled with 100 exhibitors (displaying their many green environmental products, services and campaigns), including nine sponsoring organizations.

March 10, 2008 - Concern for the environment led Chris Mullet-Koop of Elmwood Farms, who along with his wife Laura, works 57 acres just south of Jordan in the Niagara Peninsula, to develop an Environmental Farm Plan and take advantage of affiliated cost share and top-up programs.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING The Public are invited to the first Public Meeting in the Cheltenham Badlands Management Planning process. A Management Plan for the Cheltenham Badlands Property is in the early stages of development. The management planning process will define the goal, objectives and long term direction for the protection, development, management and use of the property’s resources. In particular, management issues such as access to the site and protection of the property’s sensitive earth and life science features will be addressed in the planning process. We need your input! You are invited to attend a Public Meeting to hear background information about the Cheltenham Badlands site, the management planning process, public involvement in the process, and to provide your input and insight into the issues that should be addressed as part of the planning process. The Open House will be held on: Thursday, April 3, 2008 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm Brampton Flying Club (Caledon Room) 13691 McLaughlin Road, Caledon (McLaughlin Road just south of King Road) Please plan on attending and providing your valuable input into the management issues of this unique and spectacular site – the Cheltenham Badlands. For more information on the Cheltenham Badlands Management Planning process please visithttp://www.caledonbrucetrail.org/ or www.brucetrail.org For a PDF of this announcement click here.

Maple Syrup Tasting Event

"Slow Food Maple Syrup Tasting Event" is the first in a taste education series. The maple syrup tasting takes place at Hart House farm in the Greenbelt, followed by a pancake brunch prepared by JK Wine Bar chef Tobey Nemeth and a tour of the sugar bush and production facilities.

Toronto, March 5, 2008 – Greenbelt resident and grandmother of two, Georgina Laba, is the winner of the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation’s Greenbelt Winter Wonderland story contest.

Toronto, March 4, 2008 - The hustle and bustle of early mornings and stressful work days -- we all want to get away from it all sometimes and what better place to do so than in the Greenbelt? Local farmer Linda Darby had that exact opportunity as winner of the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation’s Greenbelt Getaway prize -- a luxurious spa weekend at Caledon’s Millcroft Inn and Spa.

Food Connects Us All – 794 KB

An exciting new research paper on local food in southern Ontario was just released by the Metcalf Foundation.

Food Connects Us All: Sustainable Local Food in Southern Ontario is now available for download. This paper aims to contribute to a broader understanding of food system dynamics in this province. It is intended as a backdrop for discussions on how Ontario could move toward a truly local sustainable food system through collaboration and the identification of key leverage points for food system change.

Platinum Sponsorship of the 20th Anniversary Annual Meeting

AGCare, a coalition of farm organizations committed to communicating about agriculture and the environment, and the Ontario Farm Animal Council, which provides information on animal care, environment and food safety, celebrated their 20^th Anniversary with an annual meeting and celebration on April 17^th, 2008.

Nature Walk for Our Environment 2008

"Nature Walk for Our Environment 2008" takes place on June 15 out of the Parks Canada Discovery centre and follows the Waterfront Trail to Cootes Paradise, including part of the Hamilton to Brantford Rail Trail around the Dundas Valley Conservation Area. The walk helps raise funds for local partner organizations working on environmental projects in the Hamilton area and educates participants about the beauty and value of the Greenbelt’s hiking trails.