Celebrating Wild & Cultivated Foods

With funding from the Greenbelt Fund, a series of four hands-on and experiential workshops were designed for four local high schools highlighting foraging, hunting & fishing, farming and preserving. 

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Forest Meets Farm is a celebration of the wild and cultivated foods of Northern Ontario. For a decade now, Roots to Harvest has used the local food production community to work with young people through employment and education. As our partnership deepened with community partners and knowledge keepers, the draw towards wild foods has grown steadily, and with curiosity and respect, we have begun to explore the extensions of our local food systems beyond the farmer’s fields. Many of the young people we work with have a food literacy that has largely gone unrecognized by the conventional food economy, and Forest Meets Farm is a celebration of their knowledge as well.  
 
As important to the food itself are the people who strive to grow, forage, fish and farm this food. Forest Meets Farm celebrates these individuals as well. Some of them hold the knowledge for their communities, some of them are bridging the divide between wild and commercialized foods, and maintaining the sustainable practices required to preserve the harvests. Others are committed to producing food on the rugged Canadian Shield and nestled in the Boreal Forest. 
The Greenbelt Fund changes the way we eat food in Ontario. The Fund’s innovative investments get more local food onto the plates of the people of Ontario. We work with businesses, institutions and NGOs to make Ontario’s farmers the first choice for consumers. The Fund’s work has generated a 13-fold return on our investments, permanently changed the food value chain and improved local food awareness and education around the province. As a not-for-profit, the Greenbelt Fund is supported by public and private sources.