The Ontario Farmland Trust is engaged in a major three-year education and outreach campaign targeting municipalities, planners, rural non-farm landowners and the broader community. The goal of the campaign is to help ensure that farmland remains in farming and to build support for a ‘Places to Grow Food Plan' for Ontario.

As part of this campaign, OFT will be:

• promoting best practices and strategies for farmland protection at the municipal level
• negotiating the availability of public land or farm partnerships for start-up farming and farm training for young people and immigrants interested in local food production.
• educating farm operators about the opportunities to support local food production
• collaborating with other organizations and agencies to develop a Places to Grow Food Blueprint for food production.

 Project Rationale: Challenges and Opportunities for Keeping Farmland in Farming (PDF)