Canadian-made, science-based innovation in sustainable agriculture

It brings together a national network of researchers, farmers, manufacturers and retailers to ensure the food that ends up on Canadian dinner tables is not only nutritious and plentiful, but is also grown in a way that is environmentally sustainable.

Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay, right, helps celebrity chef Michael Smith whip up a dish during the Canadian Horticultural Council and the Canadian Produce Marketing Association’s fall harvest advocacy week at a Nov. 7, 2017, reception at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa. Photograph courtesy of the Canadian Horticultural Council

Opinion

BY DAVID BURTON

March 12, 2018

From a distance, it is difficult to see a connection between a young family sitting at their dinner table in Vancouver and a national network that includes a farmer in Prince Edward Island, an agri-retail store in Saskatchewan, and a researcher in Halifax. Upon closer inspection, however, Canadians ...

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