The recent salmonella alert regarding tomatoes should be enough to get people talking about how they can grow more food where they live. There are a number of possibilities; what do you think the next step needs to be?

Find out about local food in the GTA

When I was in Saint John Nb I, with others and a few local merchants, set up a 100 mile diet group. The idea is basically to eat foods that come from within a 100 mile radius of where you live. This is difficult to do 3 meals per day so we set...

The freshest food is food that you grow yourself; however, many people lack the space to grow much more than a few kitchen herbs on a sunny windowsill. If you want to garden and grow and maintain your own food, flowers or herbs but do not...

Here is a link to Farmers Market's in Toronto in 2008. Many of them run from May/June to October. Here is a link to a website called Local Harvest and it lists local farmers markets in the States, you can locate one by clicking on your state...