Key Guiding Policies & Action Plans
Eat Local Sudbury Cooperative
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Type of Group: Community Group |
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Website: http://www.eatlocalsudbury.com/ |
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Contact info: Maureen Strickland (Coordinator) - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 521-6717 Address: 176 Larch Street, Sudbury, ON. |
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Type of organization: non-profit cooperative, independent |
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Main focus: food |
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Purpose: Educate the public on the importance of local foods in reducing a city’s carbon footprint, and creating a sustainable, robust, food system. |
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Programs or services offered: Residents can purchase local food at the Eat Local Sudbury store. Workshops. |
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Volunteer opportunities: Volunteer opportunities include everything from joining our board of directors or working committees, or helping out in the store, at events or in our office. We are looking for both long-term and short-term volunteers. Fill out the form on their website at: http://www.eatlocalsudbury.com/get_involved.html |
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Service area: City of Greater Sudbury |
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Connections with other groups, organizations, initiatives: reThink Green, FarmON |
FarmON Alliance - Northern Representative
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Type of Group: Community Group |
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Website(s): Blog: http://farmonnorth.blogspot.com/ and http://www.farmlink.net/farmon/ |
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Contact info: Amy Hallman - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Type of organization: not-for-profit, linked to FarmStart as parent organization. www.farmstart.ca |
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Main focus: farming and farmland |
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Purpose: to encourage the development of local food systems through the support of emerging, ecologically-oriented farmers. |
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Work in the Community: Assisted in many local initiatives, including the Food Charter, discussion sessions May 2010, Food Sustainability day for high school students at Laurentian University March 2011, offered summer farm tours through the CRAFT program for interns and greater public July/August 2010, assisted with the Northeast Soil and Crop Association's summer farm tour in 2010 of the Sudbury area, sat on the Agriculture and Topsoil Panel of the City of Sudbury until it dissolved, was instrumental in setting up the first farmer's market area in the Walden Fall Fair, 2010 (currently helping to set up a mid-week market at the Anderson Farm for summer 2011). |
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Volunteer opportunities: Could use volunteers to help put on training days and new farmer networking sessions/meetings. |
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Service area: Algoma, Sudbury, Nipissing, Parry Sound/Muskoka, and Timiskaming areas. |
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Connections with other groups, organizations, initiatives: Eat Local Sudbury, Sudbury Food Connections, Northeast Soil and Crop Assocation, Northern Ontario Agri-Food and Marketing, Savour Muskoka, FarmStart (and FarmLINK), CRAFT. |
The Foodshed Project
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Type of Group: Community Group |
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Website: http://www.foodshedproject.ca/ |
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Contact info: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Address: 30 Ste. Anne Road, Unit 119, Sudbury, ON, P3C 5E1 |
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Type of organization: non-profit |
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Main focus: food (climate change, access to healthy food, gardening, school workshops) |
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Purpose: To work in partnership with youth and the citizens of the City of Greater Sudbury to develop sustainable community food security initiatives that improve our health, our community, our economy, and our environment. |
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Programs or services offered: Grow-A-Row, Workshops for schools called All About Local Food! A Workshop Series, downloadable resources on website |
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Volunteer opportunities: Participate in ‘grow-a-row’, connecting gardeners to their local food bank - register by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Service area: City of Greater Sudbury |
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Connections with other groups, organizations, initiatives: Social Planning Council, Sudbury Food Connections Network, Master Gardeners, Sudbury Horticultural Society, Sudbury Food Bank, reThink Green, Coalition for a Livable Sudbury, EarthCare Sudbury, Northern Flavours, Ron Lewis's Hardy Fruit Trees & Giant Pumpkins, FarmOn, City of Greater Sudbury Museum |
Social Planning Council of Sudbury - Food Security Component
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Type of Group: Community Group |
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Website: http://communities.mysudbury.ca/Sites/Social%20Planning%20Council%20of%20Sudbury/default.aspx |
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Contact info: Diana Mounce – This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Office space: 30 Ste. Anne Road, Suite 105, Sudbury, ON, P3C 5E1 |
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Type of organization: non-profit, independent |
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Main focus: Community food security |
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Purpose: Enhance the community's capacity to grow, distribute, prepare and share fresh, local food. |
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Work in the community: Bring people together to facilitate a planning process that leads to positive change and community action. |
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Programs or services offered: Services -Research and community development support. Programs - Community Gardens, Good Food Box, strengthening and expanding networks of people working on food initiatives (e.g. Sudbury Food Connections Network, Community Garden Network). |
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Volunteer opportunities: Ste. Anne Community Garden, Sudbury Food Connections Network, Good Food Box - Each of these have opportunities to participate in events, fundraising and general program development and delivery. |
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Service area: City of Greater Sudbury |
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Connections with other groups, organizations, initiatives: Sudbury Food Connections Network, The Foodshed Project |
Social Planning Council of Sudbury - Good Food Box Program
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Type of Group: Community Group |
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Contact info: Victoria Giannotta (Co-ordinator) - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Office Space: Social Planning Council of Sudbury, 30 Ste. Anne Road, Sudbury, ON. |
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Type of organization: non-profit |
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Main focus: food security, nutrition |
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Purpose: The Sudbury Good Food Box is a non-profit program that brings the community together by purchasing fresh fruits and vegetables at wholesale prices directly from local farmers and food distributors. A universal program, anyone can purchase a box for $15 or $7. |
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Work in the community: Good Food Box provides cooking classes and public education on nutrition and food security. |
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Programs or services offered: Good Food Boxes are available for purchase once per month. |
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Volunteer opportunities: Volunteer opportunities available! Check the website regularly for updated positions and contact info. |
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Service area: Currently Downtown Sudbury, Espanola, New Sudbury and soon to be branching out to other locations. |
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Connections with other groups, organizations, initiatives: Eat Local Sudbury, Social Planning Council, Sudbury Food Connections Network |