Blog: stories of Waterloo
There are hundreds of organizations and businesses contributing to Waterloo Region’s food system. These are some of their stories.
A Bright Future at Little Fields Farm
Nestled in the quiet countryside of Bright, Ontario, Little Fields Farm was built on a dream of good food, community, and care for the environment. Ten years in, it’s now a vibrant, CSA-based farm that shows how sustaining and sustainable small scale can be.
Connection and Food Security at Petersburg Garden
Like many newcomers, Gladys Rosana arrived in Canada with a deep knowledge of farming, but no land to grow on. That changed thanks to Petersburg Community Garden, a 20-acre site that offers dozens of Waterloo Region residents a space to grow their own food, find...
The Heart of Community Supported Agriculture at Green Hart Farms
Nestled just outside of New Hamburg, Green Hart Farms is a small "market garden" farm run by mother-daughter duo Linda and Kendra Danner. The farm’s mainstay is its Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, which provides weekly boxes of fresh vegetables and...
Eating Local, Year-Round: Granskou Greens
For the past several years, Granskou Greens has been growing produce year-round, on a small farm in the city of Kitchener, Ontario. Through the winter, inside grow tunnels swaddled in blankets, leafy greens and purples poke up from the soil in defiance of the cold....
Youth in Food Systems
In this post, we’re excited to share the work of Youth in Food Systems (YFS), a program of Seeds of Diversity that has collaborated on school gardens, as well as facilitating youth markets, communications projects, and more!
Nurture, Youth-led Gardens in Waterloo
Nurture was created as a way to get young people directly involved in the food system and in responding to the challenges they face. The program’s design was simple: let youth take charge of designing and maintaining school gardens, and experience all the good things that grow out of that.