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When you mix the business sense of Maelyn Hurley, owner of Goods and Co.; the innovation of Jodi and Kevin Belluz, owners of Belluz Farm and Superior Season Farm Store,
The Thunder Bay Food Strategy is hoping to grow local food production by getting large, public sector institutions to buy more local food – but so far, their efforts have met with mixed results.
Gross local farm revenue in Thunder Bay district has grown by two per cent over the past 10 years, well below the northern Ontario average of 48 per cent. That’s according to the new Food System Report Card that will be launched today by the Thunder Bay Food Strategy.
After a wet, snowy spring that delayed planting by two to four weeks, Thunder Bay, Ont., farmers say a decent summer and a typical fall made for a growing season that was adequate if not exceptional.