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Drop-off points at AMT commuter train stations
A drop-off point in an Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT) commuter train station is a practical option for commuters. Pick up your summer basket of fresh, locally grown organic vegetables on your way home from work.   This new service is available on the Vaudreuil-Hudson and Candiac lines. For now, there are drop-off points at three stations (but watch for more...
Solution - 22 May 2013 - Tag : Community supported agriculture, Organic baskets, Summer basket
Drop-off points at METRO grocery stores
This year, to make our organic baskets even more convenient for you, we are offering more drop-off points at METRO grocery stores. Pick up your summer basket featuring a selection of fresh, locally grown organic veggies and do the rest of your grocery shopping at the same time. What could be easier? To receive a summer basket from a METRO drop-off point:
Solution - 22 May 2013 - Tag : Community supported agriculture, Organic baskets, Summer basket
Organic baskets
An organic basket from a family farmer is a great way to eat fresh organic produce – and show your support for the local economy. In operation since 1995, Equiterre’s family farmer network includes about a hundred organic farms, which deliver fresh, locally grown vegetables to more than 500 drop-off points across Quebec. Some of our family farmers also sell such...
Solution - 14 May 2013 - Tag : Community supported agriculture, Farmer's basket, Organic baskets, Summer basket
Time to order your organic basket
The family farmers in our community supported agriculture (CSA) network are taking orders for the summer season of deliveries. 
Actualité - 8 April 2013 - Tag : A farmer at your office, Become a family farmer, Community supported agriculture, Contests, Drop-off points, Organic baskets, Summer basket
Meet François Tanguay, organic farming advocate
Authenticity in every basket, that's how idée BIO! magazine describes the work of family farmer François Tanguay, co-owner of Les Jardins du petit tremble in the Montérégie. Find out how this product of a suburban childhood became a proponent of organic agriculture. According to the article, some of the credit for François's love of nature must go to his father, who kept a...
Actualité - 5 February 2013 - Tag : A farmer at your office, Become a family farmer, Community supported agriculture, Organic agriculture, Organic baskets
Family farmer photo exhibit, Jean-Talon Market, Montreal
On display in different shops at the Jean-Talon Market: Twelve Vincenzo D'Alto photos of farms in Equiterre's community supported agriculture (CSA) network. D'Alto's photos capture both the demands of life on the farm and the beauty of country living. Equiterre launched its farmer's basket program more than 15 years ago. It enables citizens to become partners in a farm by...
Événement - 12 December 2012 - Tag : Community supported agriculture, Équiterre Activities, Farmer's basket, Organic baskets
Family farmer photo exhibit, Atwater Market, Montreal
On display in different shops at the Atwater Market: Twelve Vincenzo D'Alto photos of farms in Equiterre's community supported agriculture (CSA) network.  D'Alto's photos capture both the demands of life on the farm and the beauty of country living. Equiterre launched its farmer's basket program more than 15 years ago. It enables citizens to become partners in a farm by...
Événement - 12 December 2012 - Tag : Community supported agriculture, Équiterre Activities, Farmer's basket, Organic baskets, Photo exhibit
Impress your guests with organic meat
"One of the basic tenets of organic farming is to prevent problems by choosing appropriate breeds rather than relying on medications," says Jean-François Levasseur, who with his childhood friend Jean-François Labbé and wife Joanie, operates the Ferme du Coq à L'Âne in Bury, Quebec. This Eastern Townships farm, which has been a member of Equiterre's community...
Actualité - 10 December 2012 - Tag : Community supported agriculture, Jean-François Levasseur, Organic baskets
Micro farming for love and money, workshops
You have a little land. You'd like to grow some organic veggies, maybe even sell them.  Family farmer Jean-Martin Fortier, whose Eastern Townships microfarm, Les jardins de la Grelinette, has been hailed, at home and abroad, as a model of its form, is offering workshops based on his recently published guide, Le Jardinier-Maraîcher, for aspiring organic farmers, amateur...
Actualité - 20 November 2012 - Tag : Community supported agriculture, Organic agriculture, Organic baskets, Small scale farming
New Local Food Act in Ontario
Last week, Ontario's Ministry of Agriculture introduced a Local Food Act, establishing "a target to aspire to in respect of local food." Quebec should take note. According to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, if Ontario households were to take just $10 of their normal food spending, and use it to buy Ontario-grown rather than imported products, it could spark $2.4...
Actualité - 10 October 2012 - Tag : Buying local, Community supported agriculture, Local agriculture, Local food, Organic baskets, Set up Soup's On!, Soup's On!, Soup's On! kit
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