Food in Peterborough

BECAUSE WE VALUE A LOCAL FOOD SYSTEM, WE SUPPORT

• Local farmers and their commitment to sustainable stewardship of food producing lands.
• Policies, programs and infrastructure to ensure that locally grown food is available in the future.
• Land use policies that protect food producing lands.
• Policies to increase procurement of locally grown food where people live, learn, work, and play.
• Increased understanding of the challenges involved in producing food locally.
• Opportunities that connect people to the land and farmers to the people.
• Access to wild foods obtained by fishing, hunting and gathering.

BECAUSE WE VALUE HEALTH, WE SUPPORT

• Strategies that ensure all residents, at all times, have physical and economic access to nutritious, safe, personally and culturally appropriate foods.
• Public policy that recognizes food’s contribution to physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional well-being.
• Communities and neighbourhoods that encourage and build adequate transportation links to make healthy food accessible to all, including pedestrians and cyclists.
• Baby Friendly™* policies that protect, promote, and support breastfeeding and the importance of breastmilk as a first food.
• Nutrition education and healthy food choices where our residents live, learn, work and play.

BECAUSE WE VALUE ENVIRONMENT, WE SUPPORT

• Farming practices and food production that promotes environmental stewardship.
• Minimizing negative environmental impacts of the food system.
• Practices that improve soil, water and air quality for sustainable food production.

BECAUSE WE VALUE ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY, WE SUPPORT

• Increased production, storage, processing, distribution, consumption and marketing of local, healthy food.
• Promotion of our region as an agricultural and culinary destination.
• Food and agricultural research that is innovative, sustainable, and includes alternative food systems.
• Economic and physical services and infrastructure that support local food producing lands and the development of local food related programs and businesses.
• The protection of land for sustainable food production.

BECAUSE WE VALUE EDUCATION, WE SUPPORT

• Public awareness of the role of food systems in our lives.
• Promoting the connections between our health, the environment, and our food choices.
• Programs for current and future farmers, home gardeners, food producers, and others involved in the food system.
• Initiatives and programs that develop food literacy* for everyone.

BECAUSE WE VALUE CULTURE & COMMUNITY, WE SUPPORT

• The strengthening of links between the farm* and table.
• Celebration and promotion of culturally and spiritually significant foods and traditions to connect communities and strengthen collaborations.
• Opportunities for all community members to grow, prepare, and eat together.

BECAUSE WE VALUE SOCIAL JUSTICE, WE SUPPORT

• Dignified access to healthy and local food for all.
• A living wage for the production of food, and a safe and respectful environment for all farmers and people who work to feed others.
• Increased access to land for people interested in growing and facilities for processing food.
• Income, education, employment, housing, and transportation policies and practices that support access to healthy, sustainable food.