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We invite you to explore our projects, and encourage you to return to this site, as new events, projects, resources, articles and news bites will be continually added.

Ottawa Buy Local Food Guide

Visit our "Ottawa Buy Local Guide" map for an interactive look at where food is grown locally around Ottawa. Check out our listings by location, by food, or by farm name. View our "Harvest Chart" to see when certain fruits and vegetables are in season. Printed copies are available for pick-up at the Just Food office. Presentations on Buying Locally are also available upon request.

Community Garden Network of Ottawa is an information and resource-sharing network that supports the sustainable development of community gardens within the city.

Food For All
You are invited to join Food for All, a project aimed at addressing food issues in Ottawa that are connected to the work that you do, including:

- Food insecurity and health
- Physical access to food (incl.: food retail environments, food deserts, transportation, etc.)
- Food access in schools
- Food production in urban areas
- Food production in rural areas

Foodlink Directory
This directory of Ottawa-area food and nutrition programs and services in Ottawa, produced collaboratively by Just Food and the City of Ottawa, helps increase access to healthy food, especially for those experiencing food insecurity.

Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) Farming . Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) is an approach to growing and purchasing food products in which the farmer and consumer are working cooperatively. In a CSA, the farmer grows food for a predetermined group of consumers. The consumer enters into an agreement of purchase with the grower prior to the start of the season. The farmer gains a guaranteed market; the consumer gains high quality, fresh food, as it becomes available. CSA farms usually offer weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables, sometimes also flowers, fruits, herbs and meat products. The consumer-producer relationship is strengthened through the increased involvement of the consumers on the farm and with the farmer.

Each winter Just Food hosts CSA training workshops for farmers and future farmers.

Students For Farming. The Students for Farming project makes farms accessible to school groups. We organize with farmers to host students for a half-day on the farm in the spring and/or the fall. Through this program the youth participate in farm gleaning, and service projects on the farm.

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