Other Links

Local Food is Easy to Find

Here is a local website that allows consumers to find locally grown food and drink. The consumer enters their postal code or zip code and the closest food and drink producers will appear on a map. You can search with different ranges to find the closest producers. If you are a producer, farm market, baker, butcher, winery - are you on the map?
http://www.foodkm.com or http://www.foodmiles.us

OFC Website is Now Online

The Organic Federation of Canada brings together all the key players in Canada's Organic industry to ensure excellent standards and regulations that stimulate the growth of Canada's Organic sector. The website is at

http://www.organicfederation.ca or http://www.federationbiologique.ca

Resource Guide for Organic Insect and Disease Control

This is a good source of organic pest management information. NOTE: Not all products recommended are registered for use in Canada.

http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/pp/resourceguide/

Organic Farming and Climate Change (FiBL 2008) (PDF, 1.3 MB)

Study focusing on organic agriculture and mitigation and adaptation to predictable and unpredictable impacts of climate change - looks at the general contribution of agriculture to climate change; discusses the considerable potential of organic agriculture for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, and its contribution to sequestration of CO2 in the soil; outlines weaknesses of organic agriculture in the context of climate change; discusses the inclusion of organic agriculture in voluntary CO2 emissions markets; includes bibliography, and a list of useful links (pp. 24-27).

http://www.intracen.org/organics/documents/Organic_Farming_Climate_Change.pdf

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