Locavore News distributes three or four newsletters per week. The target routine is:
- Locavore News — World on Mondays
- Locavore News — Canada on Tuesdays (sometimes)
- Locavore News — Ontario on Wednesday
- Locavore News — Events on Fridays (cancelled)
- Locavore News — Special Events or Issues (from time to time)
To add your email address to the Locavore News distribution list, send an email to: Plumbline-subscribe@terracoeur.com.
Mission
This is an edited newsletter. We limit the list to one newsletters per day with priority given to items about locally grown food and near-urban agriculture. The uniqueness of the story/website/report/event matters a lot. It is not intended to be timely or comprehensive. Our goal is to support possibility thinking.
Submissions
Submissions are welcome at Plumblinehome@terracoeur.ca. Required format for submissions is a short descriptive paragraph (50 to 60 words) with a website link for details. Inclusion is not guaranteed. Providing the information in the above format increases the likelihood of inclusion. We do not attach documents. Locavore News — Events is on hold due to time constraints.
Editor
Elbert van Donkersgoed wrote a weekly farm, food and countryside commentary, Corner Post, from 1998 to 2006. It was heard on Southwestern Ontario radio stations and widely distributed on the Internet.
From 2006 to 2008, Elbert served as Executive Director for the Greater Toronto Area Agricultural Action Committee, a distinctive partnership involving four GTA Federations of Agriculture and the Regional Municipalities of Halton, Peel, York and Durham, plus the City of Toronto, Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Toronto Food Policy Council and the food sector.
For 35 years, ending is 2008, he was the Strategic Policy Advisor of the Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario and its 4,300 member family farm entrepreneurs.
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May 14, 2011 at 10:04 am
Just to let you now how much I enjoy receiving the Locavore News in my inbox! It’s great to be able to see what’s going on where, locally and internationally..and to see how the agriculture business is transforming itself step by step through so many creative initiatives. Thanks so much for all your hard work…
April 16, 2011 at 9:03 pm
I am enjoying your newsletter. Thought that you might like to know about a current issue in our area. There is an application for a 937 hectare quarry in the Dufferin potato growing area along Highway 124. You can learn about it at the sites: NDACT, Highland Companies, Melancthon township, It is under active review. Comments must be received by MNR Midhurst and the Highland Companies Shelburne by April 26 or your comments will not be considered in reviewing the application. If you are concerned about losing farmland and food production for Ontario become informed about this ongoing application. The Dufferin area represents 15% of Ontario’s potato production.
October 8, 2010 at 9:10 am
Hello-
I’ve been enjoying your newsletter – thanks so much for all your hard work and for including the People’s Food Policy in your listings!!!
I’m also developing our newsletter capacity and am looking around for how different organizations do this. At the moment I’m using constant contact – a web based newsletter management system.
Thanks for filling me in!
Best,
Amanda