Food Down the Road Resources
Food Down the Road and the National Farmers Union have been active in creating new resources on local food in Kingston and countryside.
From the Ground Up: A Primer for Community Action
This primer helps to build common ground on local food by informing people about challenges and opportunities facing Kingston and countryside’s food system. Starting with an overview of the food system itself, the primer examines specifics for Kingston and area, before moving on to look at some local food success stories from other areas. Lastly, the primer discusses how we can learn from successes elsewhere and adapt various approaches to build a local food system on the strengths of our region. 74 pages.
You can contact us for hardcopies, or read online as a PDF.
The Local Harvest, Autumn 2006
Printed in 2006, this first volume of The Local Harvest includes articles on Reinink Family Farms, healthy soil, how to eat locally year round, recommended readings, and peak oil. You can read this online as a PDF, or contact us about the availability of hardcopies. (This issue does include a copy of the 2006 Eating from Kingston's Countryside directy. Please refer to more recent versions, like the one in this year's edition of the newspaper.)
The Local Harvest, Autumn 2007
This year's edition of The Local Harvest is enlarged and expanded with 20 exciting pages of articles and photos. You can obtain hardcopies at many food-related sites in Kingston, or read the full paper as a PDF. However, many individual articles from the paper are available online here as well.
A printable version of the directory is available as a brochure in PDF format.
Sharing Food Down The Road (June 2008)
This booklet is our way of sharing what Food Down the Road (FDTR) is, how far we have made it on the road towards a sustainable local food system for Kingston and countryside, and ways to get involved with us!
The booklet is 56 pages long and can be downloaded as a PDF.
A National Farmers Union Local 316 initiative, Food Down the Road: Toward a Sustainable Local Food System for Kingston and Countryside relies on the generosity of many partners, supporters and volunteers. Food Down the Road is funded in part through contributions by the Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario under the Agricultural Management Institute (AMI), an initiative of the federal-provincial-territorial Agricultural Policy Framework designed to position Canada’s agri-food sector as a world leader. The Agricultural Adaptation Council administers the AMI program on behalf of the Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario.