Recherche: Organic baskets

Event date(s):  3 July, 2013 - 15:30 - 18:00 Come celebrate the first summer delivery of organic baskets to the Maison du ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 19/06/2013 - 17:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Secondaire 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 bas ...

Solution - Anne Chudobiak - 22/05/2013 - 16:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Equiterre's CSA network lets people become partners of a local farm by pre-ordering a basket of vegetables to be delivered to the same drop-off point each week in the summer and fall. Some farms offer winter baskets, usually once ...

Projet - Kathy Poulin - 22/05/2013 - 16:33 - 0 comments

Secondaire 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 ...

Solution - Anne Chudobiak - 22/05/2013 - 16:32 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Secondaire The family farmers in Equiterre's community supported agriculture (CSA) network deliver organic baskets to more than 500 drop-off points across the province.& ...

Solution - Josée Gauthier - 22/05/2013 - 15:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Principale 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, E ...

Solution - Anne Chudobiak - 22/05/2013 - 14:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The family farmers in our community supported agriculture (CSA) network are taking orders for the summer season of deliveries.  From June to October, nearly 100 farms ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 08/04/2013 - 16:32 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

"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, w ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 06/02/2013 - 11:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

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 p ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 05/02/2013 - 18:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

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 t ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 10/01/2013 - 09:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  28 January, 2013 - 09:00 - 10 February, 2013 - 23:59 On display in different shops at the Atwat ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 12/12/2012 - 16:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  14 January, 2013 - 07:00 - 25 January, 2013 - 20:00 On display in different shops at the Jean-T ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 12/12/2012 - 16:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

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 f ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 20/11/2012 - 12:20 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

An independent study  from Sherbrooke, QC demonstrates for the first time the presence of pesticides from GMOs in the blood of women, including pregnant women and their fetuses. Toxins – even at a low concentration &ndas ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 27/04/2011 - 09:33 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  9 September, 2012 - 10:00 - 16:00 On Sunday, September 9, three of the organic farms in our community supp ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 04/09/2012 - 13:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  8 September, 2012 - 08:15 - 17:00 The dedicated members of your Quebec City action group have announced a ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 04/09/2012 - 10:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Family farmer Jean-Martin Fortier, whose Eastern Townships microfarm, Les jardins de la Grelinette à St-Armand, owned with partner Maude-Hélène, has been hailed, at home and abroad, as a model of its form, has written a guide, based on hi ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 04/09/2012 - 08:27 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

On the evening of July 4, Au Potager du paysan, a community supported agriculture (CSA) farm in St-Rémi on the South Shore of Montreal, suffered extensive damage as the result of a mini tornado. Fifty to sixty percent of its crops were de ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 09/08/2012 - 15:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  11 August, 2012 - 08:15 - 17:00 Our Quebec City action group invites you on a bike ride to La Coulée Douce ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 05/07/2012 - 12:10 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Last year we published the results of a survey by Leger Marketing that showed that Canadian consumers do most of their grocery shopping at one or two places of purchase. The most frequented place of purchase? The supermarket. The same survey showed ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 13/06/2012 - 16:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal, June 12, 2012 - Metro and Equiterre are pleased to be associated with the community supported agriculture (CSA) project, for the carrying out of a pilot project that will take place during the summer of 2012. From June to November, three ...

Communiqué - Anne Chudobiak - 13/06/2012 - 13:07 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Chloé Dodinot says that when her company, Ubisoft, first heard that it could host a drop-off point for a family farmer, it conducted a survey to measure the level of interest amongst employees. "We were pleasantly surprised by the positive response ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 13/06/2012 - 11:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Thank you to the seven volunteers in our Quebec City action group who distributed more than 1000 flyers by bike last weekend, reminding residents that there is still time to order a summer basket of locally grown vegetables from one of th ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 03/06/2012 - 12:27 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  31 May, 2012 - 17:00 - 19:00 You're invited to the vernisssage of "Virée agricole," a photo exhi ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 23/05/2012 - 10:58 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  1 June, 2012 - 09:00 - 3 June, 2012 - 20:00 You're invited to the first showing of "Virée agricole," ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 23/05/2012 - 10:52 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  4 May, 2012 - 17:00 - 20:30 The Lanaudière action group, in partnership with the Collège Saint-Sacrement d ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 02/05/2012 - 14:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal, March 27, 2012 – The family farmers in Equiterre's community supported agriculture (CSA) network are now accepting orders from across Quebec for the summer season of deliveries. More than 80 farms (that have either been certified or ...

Communiqué - Anne Chudobiak - 28/03/2012 - 10:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

You want to eat more locally grown, organic food, but find shopping for groceries difficult enough to fit into your schedule as is... Did you know that you can arrange to have a farmer's basket full of healthy, locally grown vegetable ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 13/02/2012 - 11:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In 1995, Equiterre launched a pilot project involving one farm, Cadet-Roussel , and about 50 Montreal families, who agreed to pay in advance for a share of the harvest. The next year, when we officially launched the network, it inc ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 07/02/2012 - 16:39 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Is Christmas a holiday that you celebrate, but with a feeling of deep reservation, even guilt, at the consumer excess and waste? Don't feel bad.  There's hope. You can give the season new meaning  by choosing new ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 02/12/2011 - 12:17 - 0 comments - 0 attachments