2022 Food Infrastructure References

2022 Food Infrastructure References

Food Security Research Network and Faculty of Natural Resources Management, Lakehead University. (2013). The Workforce Multiplier Effect of Local Farms and Food Processors in Northwestern Ontario. Funded by the North Superior Workforce Planning Board and the Northwest...
2022 Food Infrastructure References

2015 Food Infrastructure References

Food Security Research Network and Faculty of Natural Resources Management, Lakehead University. (2013). The Workforce Multiplier Effect of Local Farms and Food Processors in Northwestern Ontario. Funded by the North Superior Workforce Planning Board and the Northwest...
Court Street Edible Food Forest

Court Street Edible Food Forest

In 2014 Roots to Harvest and the City of Thunder Bay planted the city’s first urban food forest. Located at the parkette on Court Street, the food forest includes a range of fruit trees and berry bushes that, once fully grown, will become a place people can go to pick...
Local Food Act

Local Food Act

On November 5, 2013, the Ontario Government passed the Local Food Act, which aims to foster local food economies in Ontario. Due to the advocacy efforts of Ontario Nature, the Ontario Government included forest and freshwater foods in the definition of local foods....
Ontario Nature

Ontario Nature

Over the past 2 years Ontario Nature has offered harvesting workshops to teach people how to sustainably harvest wild edibles. In 2014, Ontario Nature held 26 workshops in northwestern Ontario with a total of 576 participants. The following year, in 2015, they held 25...

Forest Foods That Are Commonly Harvested, Fished or Hunted

Beaked Hazel Bear Birch Blueberries Bunchberries Camomile Cattails Chokecherries Clover Daisy Dandelion Deer Fiddleheads Fireweed Goldenrod Grouse Highbush Cranberries Horseradish Horsetail Juniper Lake Cisco (also known as Lake Herring) Lake Salmon Lake Trout Lake...

The Medicine Wheel

In First Nation cultures, the medicine wheel symbolizes the interconnection of all life, the various cycles of nature, and how life represents a circular journey. The four sacred medicines within this tradition are sweetgrass, tobacco, cedar, and sage. These medicines...
Court Street Edible Food Forest

Personal, Commercial and Recreational Harvesting

Personal harvesting is any harvesting activity primarily intended to benefit individuals or households for sustenance. Personal harvesting can include economic activity provided it is limited to the household level (e.g., household food economy, food sharing, etc.)....
2015 Forest & Freshwater Foods References

2015 Forest & Freshwater Foods References

Stolz, W., (2015). Ontario Nature. Personal Communication, November 7, 2015. Stolz, W., (2015). Ontario Nature. Personal Communication, November 7, 2015. Thunder Bay and Area Food Strategy. (2015). Community Food Security Database. Lakehead Region Conservation...