We invite you to explore our projects, and encourage you to return to this site, as new events, projects, resources, articles and news bites will be continually added.

What we're Serving

Visit our "Ottawa Buy Local, Grow Local Food Guide" for an interactive look at where local food is grown and sold in Ottawa and surrounding area. Check out farms, farmers' markets, CSAs, community gardens, Savour Ottawa restaurants and Savour Ottawa retail stores. Printed copies are available for pick-up at the Just Food office. Please call ahead. Presentations on buying and growing locally may also be requested.

Food For All
You are invited to join Food for All, a project aimed at addressing food issues in Ottawa that are connected to the work that you do, including:

• Food insecurity and health
• Physical access to food (incl.: food retail environments, food deserts, transportation, etc.)
• Food access in schools
• Food production in urban areas
• Food production in rural areas

A Community Food and Sustainable Agriculture Hub. Just Food is embarking on an ambitious project to create a dynamic space where training, partnerships and infrastructure come together to promote and celebrate a sustainable, equitable local food system in Ottawa, and we are blogging about it here. Highlights of the Hub will include a demonstration ecological farm and demonstration community gardens, incubator farms, greenhouses, local food marketing and distribution activities, and programs on growing, preserving and preparing fresh healthy, local food for all ages.

Community Gardening Network of Ottawa is an information and resource-sharing network that supports the sustainable development of community gardens within the city.

 

Savour Ottawa works to develop and promote Ottawa and area as a premier, year-round culinary destination, with robust offerings of local foods and experiences for both locals and visitors to the area.

 

Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) Farming. Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) is an approach to growing and purchasing food products in which the farmer and consumer are working cooperatively. In a CSA, the farmer grows food for a predetermined group of consumers. The consumer enters into an agreement of purchase with the grower prior to the start of the season. The farmer gains a guaranteed market; the consumer gains high quality, fresh food, as it becomes available. CSA farms usually offer weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables, sometimes also flowers, fruits, herbs and meat products. The consumer-producer relationship is strengthened through the increased involvement of the consumers on the farm and with the farmer.

Each winter Just Food hosts CSA training workshops for farmers and future farmers.