By Larrissa Jerome On January 17th, the Food System Roundtable held their second panel discussion in partnership with Open Food Network Canada at the Kitchener Public Library to facilitate a community discussion about the tensions of urban development and creating a more sustainable food system in Waterloo Region. The rapid…

Written by Rachael Chong Part 1 of a 3-part series about neighbourhood markets in Waterloo Region St. Jacobs Market. Kitchener Market. Elmira Farmer’s Market. Cambridge Farmer’s Market. Christkindl Mkt. Uptown Waterloo Night Market. All the church bazaars and sales. …

Written by Amy Bumbacco, Contributing Blog Editor Jenn Pfenning is a champion of local, organic food production and the rights of migrant workers. You might know her from Pfenning’s Organic Vegetables where she is the Director of Human Resources and Local Purchasing, or from her extensive background of volunteer work…

Written by Alexandros Glaros Published on November 12th 2018 You see a shadow cross a field. It moves back and forth, up and down, generating a buzz with the intensity of a million mosquitoes. It’s a drone. It snaps pictures, each with a resolution down to a single blade of…

Written by Rachael Chong Municipal Election Day is coming up on October 22, 2018! In Waterloo Region, we will be voting for regional councillors, regional chair, school board trustees, municipal councillors, and mayors of Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Woolwich, Wellesley, North Dumfries and Wilmot. Politics at the regional and municipal scale…

Written by Beth Timmers Published on October 4th 2018 Visit the Indigenous Student Centre at St. Paul’s University College at noon any given Thursday and you’ll be welcomed with a bowl of homemade soup and fry bread. You may sit next to a colleague you haven’t seen in months, your…

Written by Amy Bumbacco Originally published in June 2018 This winter, my fiancé and I moved into a new bungalow in Kitchener. It was a happy surprise to see the melting snow uncover an array of backyard perennial flower gardens. We even discovered a few raspberry bushes! We would love…

Written by Steffanie Scott Originally published on October 31st 2012 So-called ‘waste’ is the oft-forgotten other end of the food chain. But it’s a critically important resource, if cycled back into production, to provide composted organic matter for maintaining soil fertility. …

Written by Theresa Schumilas Originally published on October 29th 2012 My experience in talking to eaters is that most people are naive about farm scale. When we talk about supplying local vegetables (for example) most of us conjure up images of families out in a field pulling carrots and putting…