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Our Mission - "To Serve and Develop Organic Agriculture!"
 
We recognize that organic agriculture is knowledge and management intensive. This section provides the most popular resources to help people connect with education, support, commercce, and healthy lifestyles. We focus on Canadian resources but also link to usefull sites elseshere. If you have a valuable resource, please let us know and we will add it to the list.
 
 
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Organic Support

You asked for information on organic agriculture, well there is lots of it out there...

 

The Organic Production Systems standards are available on the Website of the Canadian General Standard Board.
The Organic Federation of Canada brings together all the key players in Canada's organic industry to ensure excellent standards and regulations that stimulate the growth of Canada's organic sector,
The Organic Council of Ontario is a membership-based non-profit association representing the organic sector in Ontario at a provincial and national level. The Organic Council provides leadership, market development, government liaison, and support to the continued growth of Ontario's organic sector.
Ontario's Ecological Farmers make an active effort in teaching, helping, networking, and informing other organic farmers. They attract small and large producers of organic and ecological livestock, market gardens and field crops.
Organic consumers and producers across Canada work together in a national learning network, particularly interesting for gardeners, market gardeners, herb producers.
Organic livestock producers in Canada are getting together to provide mutual support and education.
McGill University has dedicated significant resources to the study and promotion of sustainable agriculture including the Ecological Agriculture Project.
ACORN aims to enhance the viability and growth of the Atlantic Canadian organic agricultural community through a unified regional network. ACORN is a non-profit organization that promotes organic agriculture.
The University of Guelph is now offering a degree program in organic agriculture. Their website is full of organic resources and references. A wonderful feature is a profile of many entrepreneurs in the organic sector in Canada.
The Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada (OACC) is dedicated to enhancing the environmental and social integrity of agriculture. This will be achieved through scientific analyses of methods to improve the sustainability of farming.
The Rodale Institute reaches a global community of food producers to exchange valuable “farmer-to-farmer know-how.” NewFarm.org presents compelling success stories with expert resources for crop and livestock production, direct marketing, local food systems, policy campaigns and community-building collaborations
Meet the Organic Consumers Association, an important education and awareness group defending organics in the US.
Many Canadians are hosts to rare breeds of farm animals in order to preserve our agricultural heritage and ensure our biodiversity.
This project provides technical information, training courses, seminars and enhanced electronic resources to organic farmers and farmers interested in exploring the organic approach.
 
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