What is Farm Sustainability? Cutting through the "sustainababble". We explore farm #sustainability and #sustainable sourcing with Nick Betts of Sustainable Agriculture Initative or SAI Platform. Perspectives of the Food and Agriculture Organization, Canadian Roundtable on Sustainable Beef and Syngenta are also presented. This show forms part of a new series on farm sustainability hosted by Paul Smith. #ontag #cdnag #food

More info:

https://saiplatform.org/

https://saiplatform.org/profile/nick-betts/

http://www.fao.org/policy-support/policy-themes/sustainable-food-agriculture/en/

https://crsb.ca/

Abdul speaks with Rebecca Clayton of the Seed FoodHub ahead of the Carrot stock food and music festival this Saturday September 21 at the Everdale Farm.  An encore presentation. 

https://www.theseedguelph.ca/

https://www.theseedguelph.ca/carrotstock

http://everdale.org/

Today Emily Duncan discusses the #COFS19 Canada's Outdoor Farm Show with Sarah Marquis and Aidan O'Brien #Ontag #precisionag

https://www.outdoorfarmshow.com

Survey for farmers:

https://uoguelph.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8DlMUAPDuEjqoxn

We're pleased to bring you this series on soil health in partnership with the @SoilsAtGuelph initiative. On this episode, series host and Outreach and Communications Coordinator Cameron Ogilvie chats Dr. Adam Gillespie to lay the groundwork for this series: What is soil? What makes for a healthy soil? And what is the state of our soils in Ontario?

Find out more on the Soils at Guelph initiative by visiting the following news articles:

https://www.uoguelph.ca/oac/news/soils-guelph-welcomes-communications-and-outreach-coordinator

https://news.uoguelph.ca/2018/12/soil-health-outreach-donation-announced-to-mark-world-soil-day/

A conversation with Josh Moran, honours agriculture student, hosts the Why and How Podcast where we look to answer big questions in agriculture, food, and the environment through casual conversations rooted in research. The Why & How is published by the Ontario Agricultural College of the University of Guelph. 

https://www.uoguelph.ca/oac/about/why-how-podcast

The #EatThinkVote event brought together Guelph candidates in the federal election to talk about food issues. The Arrell Food Institute sponsored the event along with Food Secure Canada and The SEED, a project of the Guelph Community Health Centre . 

http://www.eatthinkvote.ca/news/guelph/

We talk to Brent Preston of TheNewFarm on the values of organic farming, short supply chains, growing what people eat, building communities through farms and customers with shared value.

https://thenewfarm.ca/

Emily interviews Natalie Vasilivetsky, University of Guelph campus sustainability coordinator, about Composting and the circular economy. 

More information: 

https://www.uoguelph.ca/sustainability/composting-0

https://theontarion.com/2019/07/29/campus-composting-program-evolves-into-a-circular-food-economy-that-feeds-the-university/

Farm sustainability will be the focus of a number of episodes this year. But what is farm sustainability? And what does it mean for farmers and consumers. Host Abdul discusses this with Paul Smith, who will be the guest host on farm sustainability issues. Paul worked in environment management for three decades including half of that on environmental sustainability for Ontario farms. Sustainability includes environmental, economic and social elements and so in complex to assess.

Some links on sustainable agriculture:

https://www.agrifoodsustainability.ca/

https://crsb.ca/

http://sustainablecrops.ca/

Abdul talks with Lenore Newman, who holds a Canada Research Chair in Food Security and Environment at the University of the Fraser Valley, where she is currently an Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment. She also serves as Director of the Food and Agriculture Institute.

https://www.ufv.ca/geography/faculty-and-staff/faculty-members/newman-lenore.htm