HomeGrown campaign notes local food available all through the year

Even during the cold winter months when most Ontario farms are dormant for the season, there are local food options to be found in local supermarkets and farmers’ markets.Enter HomeGrown, an initiative of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) that, in addition to stressing the importance of buying local, focuses on preserving Ontario farmland.The province loses an average of 319 acres of farmland every day. To put that in perspective, that area could fit 797 hockey rinks or 49,766 ca