Food Producers Forum

In March, Food Producers Forum brought together fourteen people who work across the NL food system — farmers, fishers, food scientists, researchers, processors, educators, nonprofit reps and policy advocates — f or a wide-ranging conversation on its problems and potentials . The first result is a new report: How Do We Feed Ourselves? A Report from the Provincial Food System Think Tank . One afternoon was never going to resolve the formidable issues in play, but the session established a...

On Friday, May 8, Food Producers Forum and the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University are hosting Waste Not! — a full-day symposium on food waste and food sovereignty in Newfoundland and Labrador. The event will feature four panel sessions moving through the full food chain — terrestrial production, fisheries, retail and consumer waste, and a final integration session focused on priorities and pathways forward. Panelists include researchers, farmers, government and industry...

On this episode of CBC Radio One's The Signal, host Adam Walsh talks with Food Producers Forum current and founding chairs, Alison Snow and Dan Rubin, respectively; along with playwright Frank Holden; Darren Dinsmore from Aldercroft Farm; and, finally, author Hilday Chaulk Murray. Topics are rich and wide-ranging, but all related to farming and food security, with this guiding question: what can we learn from the way we used to farm to help us today?