Eco-project aims to take Peel-area youth back to the land

Farmland may long since have disappeared from Mississauga, but a local environmental group is going to try to build a link between the city’s young people and the land.
The Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation announced yesterday that it is funding a $106,000 pilot project to raise students’ awareness in Peel Region of how food is grown.


The project, which will be directed by EcoSource, an environmental education organization, was unveiled in a Mississauga middle school at a program where Mayor Hazel McCallion helped hand out snacks of greenbelt-grown apples.
“We’re trying to engage the urban food buyer with the greenbelt farmer,” foundation president Burkhard Mausberg said.
globeandmail.com: Eco-project aims to take Peel-area youth back to the land


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