Organic

February 10, 2026

Celebrating Canada’s Agriculture Day: Growing Organic, Together

February 10, 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of Canada’s Agriculture Day, a day intended to celebrate the people and practices that help bring food to the table.  Here at Yorkshire Valley Farms (YVF), we’re celebrating our own milestone as we enter our 15th year of bringing high quality organic food to Canadians.
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December 5, 2025

World Soil Day: Protecting the Ground For Our Future

On World Soil Day, we come together to raise awareness of the importance of soil for our environment, our food security, and our well-being. However, we must also remember that healthy soils in every part of the world are eroding, degrading or losing essential nutrients needed to grow food and raw goods. Once this soil is gone, it is gone.
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November 26, 2025

The Rights of Nature, An Idea Whose Time Has Come

People who grow or support organic food care about soil conservation, biodiversity, ecological balance and environmental sustainability - in other words - nature. So it is not surprising that many support the rights of nature, a dramatic global development that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls the fastest growing legal movement of the twenty-first century. 
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October 17, 2025

World Food Day: COTA Members and Second Harvest Feed Communities

Globally, the need for action on food security is urgent. In Canada, 1 in 4 people face hunger — the highest level ever recorded. In advance of World Food Day, taking place on October 16, 2025, UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted that the tools, knowledge and resources exist to end hunger, but what is needed most is unity: solidarity across borders, sectors and communities.
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June 25, 2025

Growing Resilience Together: The Power of Partnership in the ROO Regenerative Organic Oats Program

In 2021, as drought conditions devastated crops across Canada, organic farmers faced yet another reminder that they are on the front lines of climate change. Out of that hardship came a powerful idea: What if the organic industry could come together—not in competition, but in collaboration—to strengthen organic supply chains and support the farmers who feed us? This question laid the foundation for the Regenerative Organic Oats (ROO) program, a farmer-centered initiative designed to build resilience, adaptability, and innovation into the future of regenerative organic agriculture. 
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