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Time to order your organic basket
The family farmers in our community supported agriculture (CSA) network are taking orders for the summer season of deliveries. 
Actualité - 8 April 2013 - Tag : A farmer at your office, Become a family farmer, Community supported agriculture, Contests, Drop-off points, Organic baskets, Summer basket
Meet François Tanguay, organic farming advocate
Authenticity in every basket, that's how idée BIO! magazine describes the work of family farmer François Tanguay, co-owner of Les Jardins du petit tremble in the Montérégie. Find out how this product of a suburban childhood became a proponent of organic agriculture. According to the article, some of the credit for François's love of nature must go to his father, who kept a...
Actualité - 5 February 2013 - Tag : A farmer at your office, Become a family farmer, Community supported agriculture, Organic agriculture, Organic baskets
Lucky Quebecers get veggies from work
Chloé Dodinot says that when her company, Ubisoft, first heard that it could host a drop-off point for a family farmer, it conducted a survey to measure the level of interest amongst employees. "We were pleasantly surprised by the positive response. In just two days, more than 100 people told us, 'Yes, we want to do it. Sign us up!' So we said, 'Let's do this.'"
Actualité - 13 June 2012 - Tag : A farmer at your office, Community supported agriculture, Farmer's basket, Local food, Organic baskets
Vernissage, "Virée agricole" photo exhibit, Montreal
You're invited to the vernisssage of "Virée agricole," a photo exhibit by Léonie Rouette Tétrault, as it begins its tour of Quebec. The exhibit – which stars one of the family farms in our community supported agriculture (CSA) network, Les Bontés de la Vallée – gives a rare insider view of what it's really like to work on a small organic farm in Quebec....
Événement - 23 May 2012 - Tag : A farmer at your office, Become a family farmer, Community supported agriculture, Équiterre Activities, Organic baskets, Photo exhibit
"Virée agricole" photo exhibit, Montreal
You're invited to the first showing of "Virée agricole," a photo exhibit by Léonie Rouette Tétreault, as it begins its tour of Quebec. This exhibit – which stars one of the family farms in our community supported agriculture (CSA) network, Les Bontés de la Vallée – gives a rare insider view of what it's really like to work on a small organic farm in...
Événement - 23 May 2012 - Tag : A farmer at your office, Become a family farmer, Community supported agriculture, Équiterre Activities, Organic baskets, Photo exhibit
Thank you for supporting local food!
Fifteen years ago, 250 Montreal families banded together with seven local farms to launch what has since become North America's largest community supported agriculture (CSA) network. This October, we asked you to celebrate with us. And celebrate you did! One hundred and thirty of you joined us at the Centre for Sustainable Development for a day of family fun. It was a chance...
Actualité - 9 November 2011 - Tag : A farmer at your office, Become a family farmer, Book launch, Community supported agriculture, Laure Waridel, Local food, Organic baskets
Our family farmer program celebrates its 15th anniversary!
In 1995, Equiterre launched a pilot project involving one farm, Cadet-Roussel, and about 50 Montreal families, who agreed to pay in advance for a share of the harvest. The next year, when we officially launched the network, it included 7 farms and about 250 families.
Actualité - 27 September 2011 - Tag : A farmer at your office, Become a family farmer, Community supported agriculture, Laure Waridel, Local agriculture, Organic agriculture, Organic baskets
Pesticide exposure in the womb: lower IQ?
A new study from University California Berkeley links prenatal pesticide exposure with slight cognitive deficits in school-age children. The researchers – including one from Ste-Justine Hospital in Montreal – found that children whose mothers had had the highest level of pesticide concentrations in their urine during pregnancy scored on average 7 points lower on IQ...
Actualité - 3 May 2011 - Tag : A farmer at your office, Advocacy, Become a family farmer, Community supported agriculture, Ecological gardening guide, Ecological horticulture, Organic baskets, Pesticides, Set up Soup's On!, Soup's On! kit
A farmer at your office
A farmer's basket full of healthy, locally grown, organic vegetables, delivered directly to your workplace once a week? Find out how easy it is to host a drop-off point for the Quebec community supported agriculture (CSA) network. 
Solution - 31 January 2011 - Tag : A farmer at your office, Community supported agriculture, Farmer's basket, Sustainable development
Community supported agriculture
Equiterre's CSA network lets people become partners of a local farm by pre-ordering a basket of vegetables to be delivered to the same drop-off point each week in the summer and fall. Some farms offer winter baskets, usually once every two weeks from November to March,  consisting mainly of root vegetables. Some farms also sell meat. CSAs may team up with nearby farms to...
Projet - 9 November 2010 - Tag : A farmer at your office, Become a family farmer, Community supported agriculture, Customizable talks, Ecological agriculture, Organic baskets, Recipes, Teikei, Winter basket
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