The Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health is hosting a webinar this Tuesday on Great Local Food: Exploring Huron County’s Food Landscape.
Gateway Assistant Project Lead, Grace Bonnett, says the objective of the webinar is to promote people who grow local food.
“The overall project aim for this is to promote people who grow local food, promote people who raise local food, increase the amount who eat local food and ensure that we have access to local food to ultimately end up with a thriving local food system in Huron County.”
Bonnett says the pandemic has actually had a positive impact for local food producers in that it has encouraged people to support the local food industry and it’s also demonstrated how vulnerable global trade can be during something like the pandemic.
Bonnett says, as part of her project, they interviewed almost sixty Huron County producers.
“We broke it down by sector, so we had twenty fruit and vegetable producers, thirteen meat and dairy, fourteen beverage producers and sixteen specialty items. So that is a total of 57 producers across Huron County and quite a diverse range of sectors as well.”
Bonnett says they hope the webinar will make more people aware of the wide variety of foods that are available in Huron County. The webinar runs from noon to one o’clock on Tuesday, May 3rd. It’s free and the link to join the webinar can be found on the Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health web site.
