Golden Horseshoe and Ontario
Golden Horseshoe Area
ABACAN - the Association of Bangladeshi Agriculturalists of Canada
Carolinian Canada Forest Garden Guild encourages and nurtures a system of conscious, sustainable, ecological design for growing food, fuel, fibre, fodder, fertilizer, and “farmaceuticals,” as well as fun, in the southern part of Ontario.
Durham Integrated Growers has policy resources including a report on supportive municipal policies for UA
Ecosource (Mississauga) has a report on their Deep Roots community garden program
Grey Bruce Centre for Agroecology http://www.gbcae.com/index.html
The Guelph Urban Organic Farm (GCUOF) is a 1 hectare learning and research facility established by the Ontario Agricultural College within the Department of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph. GCUOF is also host to Garden2Table, a student-run program to promote food education to children in the greater Guelph community.
Halton Food Council - includes a food charter, resources on local food.
Hamilton Community Garden Network has a good resources page and a guide to starting a community garden.
Hamilton Victory Gardens tweets resources.
A 2013 Hamilton report Urban Agriculture Policy, Planning and Practice reviews planning and policy issues and examples from other cities, including zoning.
Article about Hamilton's efforts to remove policy barriers to urban ag.
McQuesten Urban Farm in Hamilton - they also have a Facebook page
Six Nations - Our Sustenance has information about growing Indigenous medicines such as sage, tobacco and sweet grass.
Markham's local food procurement policies. Markham's Sustainability Office has a community garden listing and Seed Library.
Farms at Work in Peterborough offers a place to meet, learn, share and explore for farmers in Durham, Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough, Northumberland, Haliburton and Hastings. Includes farmer business planning resources, mentoring, stewardship supports and workshops and training.
Seeds for Change - York Region Food Charter, GTA resource list, Educators' Corner, York Region Community Garden Network
Shoresh - Jewish-focused programming including Kavanah garden & CSA, Bela farm
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) has information about their farms (McVean, Albion Hills, Black Creek, Kortright) and land available for farming. They adopted a Near Urban Agriculture policy in 2008.
The City of Vaughan's community garden page has city policies and sample documents, an ask the expert Twitter chat and info about the Vaughan seed library
Ontario
Land Food People Foundation (formerly Local Food Plus) - promotion of local, sustainable food, list of certified farmers
National Farmers' Union Ontario has a York/Peel/GTA local