“Monterey County agriculture” by Richard Masoner / Cyclelicious is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
For today’s blog, I will be writing on the topic of sustainable agriculture and also touch on local food security. While researching this topic, I found this very interesting website link by the TRCA that goes over food security issues how to buy local in Toronto. It also listed farms in Toronto that do their farming sustainably.
Link: https://trca.ca/conservation/urban-agriculture/
It also goes over why one should buy locally. Such as the fact that buying locally means that the food travels less of a distance and that means less burning of fossil fuel emissions. They taste better, it helps with storm water, especially in urban centres, and lastly local places are more transparent about how they farm. This is all the more reason to support local markets across the GTA, and hopefully one day local markets will be popular all over Canada. This particular issue is a big one, considering how many fossil fuels are burned as a result of exporting foods from other countries. If we switch over to local markets, we can cut our emissions dramatically and prevent further damage to plants and animals all over the world.
If you yourself wish to help make agriculture more sustainable in Canada, you can go to this link, https://www.agrifoodsustainability.ca
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 