Conference Partners

Food Action Network
www.nwofood.com
The Food Action Network (FAN) brings many groups together to improve access to enough affordable, nutritious, safe, environmentally sustainable food for all. The purpose of this group is to create awareness, support food projects, advocate for policies that support community food security, and act as an information centre for community food security in the District of Thunder Bay.

Food Security Research Network
www.foodsecurityresearch.ca
The Food Security Research Network (FSRN) is dedicated to finding ways that our Northern community can support a stronger local food system. Northwestern Ontario offers unique conditions under which we explore the challenges, opportunities and solutions for food security from many different vantages. FSRN strives to bring together the resources and innovation needed to engage in these solutions.

Thunder Bay Federation of Agriculture
www.tbfarminfo.org
The Thunder Bay Federation of Agriculture (TBFA) is a community group affiliated with the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. TBFA’s 99 members include mainly primary producers in agriculture and associated businesses. Its mandate is to promote agriculture to both rural and urban citizens; to educate the general public about the agriculture industry; to assist agricultural businesses; to lobby the government regarding agricultural issues; to increase public awareness about agriculture in Thunder Bay and beyond.

Northwestern Health Unit
www.nwhu.on.ca
The mission of the Northwestern Health Unit is to encourage healthy behaviours by promoting and protecting conditions in which all people can achieve an optimal level of health, serving the Kenora (part) and Rainy River Districts.

Rainy River Federation of Agriculture
www.rainyrivervalley.ca/rrf-agriculture.php
The Rainy River Federation of Agriculture (RRFA), "Farmers working for Farmers", was established in 1976. The RRFA actively promotes local food production and proudly support all initiatives that will improve the quality of life and livelihood for its members and all others who live in the Rainy River District.

Thunder Bay Country Market
www.thunderbaycountrymarket.com
For its vendors, the Market represents an opportunity to earn a living doing something they're great at and that they love. For customers it's a place to buy groceries, crafts and gifts from the talented, hard-working people who created them. For others it's a meeting-place full of good people where they can get in touch with some of the simpler things in life.

Slow Food Superior
www.slowfoodsuperior.ca
Founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy in 1986, Slow Food is an international association that promotes food and wine culture, but also defends food and agricultural biodiversity worldwide. Slow Food Superior is the local chapter, an enthusiastic group whose purpose is to draw attention to sustainable agriculture, traditional preparations and the health and happiness that comes from eating food from the farm instead of the factory.

FoodNet Ontario
www.foodnetontario.ca
FoodNet Ontario is a province-wide network that strengthens organizations and individuals committed to achieving community food security and creating sustainable local food systems

Thunder Bay District Health Unit
www.tbdhu.com
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit is one of 36 Public Health Units operating in the Province of Ontario, Canada. TBDHU is a non-profit agency funded jointly by the provincial government and the municipalities

Thunder Bay Ventures
www.thunderbayventures.com
Thunder Bay Ventures is a non-profit organization committed to fostering community economic development in Thunder Bay and region.

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs &
Ontario Market Investment Fund
www.omafra.gov.on.ca
The Ontario Market Investment Fund (OMIF), through the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, is a $12-million, four-year fund targeted to promote consumer awareness of Ontario-produced foods and encourages Ontarians to buy locally.

EarthWise Thunder Bay
www.earthwisethunderbay.com
The mission of EarthWise Thunder Bay is to focus the energy, involvement, and collective wisdom of the community to secure the environmental health of our region, and thereby improve the social and economic well-being of future generations.