Buy Local, Share Local Coming Tomorrow to Covent Garden Market!

Tomato Gift | Photo: Kelly Hunt This Thursday at the Covent Garden Market you can buy yourself a load of fresh fruits and vegetables and at the same time you can buy someone else a load of fresh goodies! I am more than happy to tell you that the Buy Local, Share Local Program is coming to London. It is a great campaign, please see the press release below for full details. Any food donated tomorrow to this project at the Market will directly benefit the London Food Bank. It is such a great idea. Be a part of it! Kelly PS. My Irish mother would say “Make sure to get potatoes!!” RESIDENTS ASKED TO BUY LOCAL AND SHARE LOCAL AT LONDON COVENT GARDEN MARKET THIS THURSDAY ~ Market booth travelling across Ontario to accept donations of locally grown fruits and vegetables for local food bank stops at London farmers’ market London, ON (September 1, 2009) – The Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB) and the London Food Bank are taking a fresh approach to food drives at the Covent Garden Market this week by asking neighbours in London to buy and share fresh, local food with their local food bank at the market. “The Buy Local Share Local program aims to provide the hundreds of thousands of Ontarians who are forced to turn to food banks with fresh and healthy foods grown locally by area farmers,” said Adam Spence, Executive Director of the OAFB. “We are facing tough times in Ontario, and food banks are struggling to keep up with demand. We need all the help we can get.” Buy Local Share Local is presented by RBC, with Chef Anna Olson as its ambassador. On her Food Network show, “Fresh with Anna Olson,” Anna invites viewers into her Niagara-region home and creates unique meals using her mantra “eat fresh,eat local.” London residents can support the campaign by sharing in person this Thursday at the Covent Garden Market and dropping off their donation of fresh,local produce directly at the OAFB Buy Local Share Local booth. “Food is about sharing,” said Olson. “Buy Local Share Local gives us the unique opportunity to share Ontario grown apples, corn, peaches, squash and so much more with our local food bank and our neighbours facing hunger.” The Buy Local Share Local tour is travelling to over 25 farmers’ markets in 15 different cities across Ontario between July and October. Buy Local Share Local runs in partnership with the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA), Turkey Farmers of Ontario, Homegrown Ontario, and the Ontario Farm Animal Council. Buy Local Share Local  Read More