The HFC's mission is to foster a thriving community food system by building knowledge, skills, and relationships around food that is ecological, healthful and just.
We believe that the food system is foundational in building a sustainable, resilient, and regenerative future.
Some details about that...
The HFC works in five key areas:
If you believe in the importance of HFC's mission and would like to support this work with a monetary donation, please click the Donate button below.
Thank you so much for your support!
We believe that the food system is foundational in building a sustainable, resilient, and regenerative future.
Some details about that...
- Through our agricultural systems we can build healthy soils, increase biodiversity, create habitat, support the health of pollinators, avoid the mistreatment of animals, amp up the nutritional content of our foods and more.
- Through our eating practices, we can avoid disease, restore our gut flora, regenerate healthy cells, maintain or rebuild our relationship with ourselves and the Earth, and more.
- Through our food distribution networks we can decrease the amount of greenhouse gases we emit, cut down on the amount of plastic that we use, access food when it is fresher, decrease the amount of food waste, increase food access and food security etc.
- Through our food culture we can build relationships, create happiness, increase social multi-generational and multicultural connections and cohesion, protect important food knowledge, keep stories of our ancestors alive, and the list goes on.
- Through food waste management practices, we can rebuild soil that is an important agricultural resource - according to this 2015 article, "Earth has lost a third of arable land in the last 40 years.
The HFC works in five key areas:
- Education and awareness building about the importance of healthy food systems.
- Skill and knowledge sharing around healthy production, transformation, and consumption of food.
- Dialogue and discussion about the future of food in Hudson and beyond.
- Community building and networking to build the capacity needed to re-localize the food system.
- Project Development to support our vision.
If you believe in the importance of HFC's mission and would like to support this work with a monetary donation, please click the Donate button below.
Thank you so much for your support!
JJ Corker, Treasurer
Following studies in English Literature, JJ Corker became enamoured with agriculture by reading the poetry of Virgil, Wendell Berry, and John Clare. He later spent five years in England, where he received a diploma in Biodynamic Agriculture and then worked on a vegetable farm, a polyculture vineyard in the south of France, and an orchard with 3,000 laying hens, dozens of beehives and the best apples he’s ever eaten. He is very happy to be joining a group of dedicated individuals trying to bring food security to the region.
Briony joined the HFC team in 2020 as Director of Programs and Development. In her own words, “Food is the great connector! The holistic mission of the HFC couldn’t be more important right now. It holds a vision of the future grounded in reciprocity and respect - for one another and the land," Briony has a BSc in Natural Resource Management and PhD in soil ecology and mine rehabilitation. She has diverse experiences managing natural and social research, policy and community engagement projects. She is passionate about finding ways to facilitate community and ecosystem restoration through knowledge and skill sharing. While not working with the HFC, she serves on the Board of Directors of local non-profit Nature Hudson and Ottawa-based non-profit Evidence 4 Democracy.
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We invite you to join us this season to welcome an abundance of vegetables and flowers, as we learn, enjoy,
and garden together!
The Hudson Food Collective will be present at the Kitchen Garden every second Saturday of the month, for a Kitchen Garden Community Day.
An invite for the community to come get their hands dirty in the garden while enjoying a discussion of the various topics; from garden maintenance to permaculture and much more.
Dates Schedules:
June 10th
July 8th
August 12th
September 9th
October 14th
Stay updated on any additional updated and education opportunities by subscribing to our newsletter.
and garden together!
The Hudson Food Collective will be present at the Kitchen Garden every second Saturday of the month, for a Kitchen Garden Community Day.
An invite for the community to come get their hands dirty in the garden while enjoying a discussion of the various topics; from garden maintenance to permaculture and much more.
Dates Schedules:
June 10th
July 8th
August 12th
September 9th
October 14th
Stay updated on any additional updated and education opportunities by subscribing to our newsletter.
Our board consists of seven seats drawn from the community, partner organizations and staff. Board terms last two years and are elected at the annual general meeting, held in February each year.
Esme Terry, Founder
Esme, originally from England, has called Hudson home since 2011. She connects with food in the garden, where she has learned over the years to grow her family's summer menu, and preserve much of it for the icy seasons. As an alternative health practitioner, she uses food as medicine, as the baseline for holistic wellness. She also works in administration for Food Secure Canada.
Community Supported Agriculture
An alternative, locally based economic model of agriculture and food distribution.
CSA members, or subscribers, pay at the onset of the growing season for a share of the anticipated harvest;
once harvesting begins, they receive regular shares of produce.
In this way growers and consumers share the risks and benefits of food production.
Would you like to receive a diverse selection of seasonal, ecological vegetables,
freshly harvested by your local farmers?
If so, please consider becoming a CSA member and receive 18 consecutive weeks of veggie baskets!
CSA members, or subscribers, pay at the onset of the growing season for a share of the anticipated harvest;
once harvesting begins, they receive regular shares of produce.
In this way growers and consumers share the risks and benefits of food production.
Would you like to receive a diverse selection of seasonal, ecological vegetables,
freshly harvested by your local farmers?
If so, please consider becoming a CSA member and receive 18 consecutive weeks of veggie baskets!
Media
January 26th, 2017
Produce will be available during the 2017 Growing Season!
Weekly vegetable baskets
Local farmer's markets
Le Pont Bridging Food Bank (where surplus will be donated)
Local farmer's markets
Le Pont Bridging Food Bank (where surplus will be donated)
Launch of the Community Farm
About 100 people were in attendance at the Community Launch of the farm on March 17th, 2017
- we are so grateful for your presence, for your interest, and for your contributions, culinary and monetary alike!
Rébecca and Loïc (farm managers) shared their gratitude on the Hudson Community Farm Facebook page...
"You all warmed our hearts beyond words with your
presence, support, interest, curiosity and love at the launch!
We are more excited and moved than ever to be bringing
this initiative to life and to be joining this wonderful community!"
During the month of February, the Hudson Community Farm asked you to bring your best ideas forward
to help us name the farm. At the launch event we announced the winning name!
Heartbeet
or...
Hudson Heartbeet Community Farm
Thank you to Charlotte B. Rousseau for submitting the winning name!
- we are so grateful for your presence, for your interest, and for your contributions, culinary and monetary alike!
Rébecca and Loïc (farm managers) shared their gratitude on the Hudson Community Farm Facebook page...
"You all warmed our hearts beyond words with your
presence, support, interest, curiosity and love at the launch!
We are more excited and moved than ever to be bringing
this initiative to life and to be joining this wonderful community!"
During the month of February, the Hudson Community Farm asked you to bring your best ideas forward
to help us name the farm. At the launch event we announced the winning name!
Heartbeet
or...
Hudson Heartbeet Community Farm
Thank you to Charlotte B. Rousseau for submitting the winning name!
2017 Wild Edible Walks
Wild Edible Walks take place in Hudson
on the fourth Saturday of every month with July's being a Sunday exceptionally this year
on the fourth Saturday of every month with July's being a Sunday exceptionally this year
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Meeting place for the walks
will be announced on our Facebook page a few days before the walk. Walks are from 10am to 12pm |
June 24th
July 23rd August 26th September 23rd October 28th |
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“Eat them don't weed them”
The Hudson Food Collective invites you to come celebrate Dandelions! The festival highlights the benefits of the dandelion and seeks to dispel the “weed” myth. Dandelions have a taste similar to chicory or endive all parts of the plant can be eaten. Join us at the festival and learn how to cook with dandelions, they can be made into fritters, pesto, wine, tea, coffee, juice and eaten in salads. Let’s re-establish the dandelion’s medicinal place in our contemporary culture. Dandelions are often considered a pesky weed in Canada and the U.S. yet, European and Asian nations have greatly benefited for years from the incredible nutritional value that this weed contains. Studies have shown that the plant holds many health benefits by producing antibodies to cancer and can buffer blood glucose levels for diabetics as some of the medical benefits it can produce. Come join us to taste and share your dandelion stories and recipes. Come and learn about fun new ways to prepare dandelion. We'll also be having a draw for our brand new dandelion recipe booklet and a booth for kids to teach them a cool new way to play with their food. All of this information and more can be found at our Hudson Food Collective booth; as well as the information on our newest project; The Hudson Fruit Tree Project Bring an open perspective and your taste-buds, We will be selling some food to taste like hearty bread with salad; pasta smothered in dandelion pesto; dandelion and burdock soda, and more... Eat while you browse the vendor booths: Honey vendor Fairy Booth: Fairy Gardens and Faith Readings with Victoria Rage Healing Dome with free Reiki Meditation Musical performances and poetry readings Kids Booth: to play with our dandelions and make art |
“Manger plutôt que désherber!”
Le Collectif alimentaire de Hudson vous invite à venir célébrer les pissenlits! Le festival souligne les bienfaits du pissenlit et cherche à dissiper le mythe de la «mauvaise herbe». Les pissenlits ont un goût semblable à la chicorée et aux endives. Toutes les parties de la plante se consomment. Rejoignez-nous au festival pour apprendre comment cuisiner le pissenlit...on peut en faire des galettes, du pesto, du vin, du thé, du jus et l’ajouter aux salades. Rétablissons le rôle médicinal du pissenlit dans notre culture contemporaine. La fleur est souvent considérée comme une mauvaise herbe au Canada et aux États-Unis, tandis que les gens d'Europe et d'Asie profitent depuis des années de sa grande valeur nutritive. Des études ont montré que la plante possède de nombreux avantages pour la santé grâce à la production d’anticorps anti-cancéreux et la modération les niveaux de glucose sanguin chez les diabétiques. Venez nous joindre pour déguster et partager vos recettes et histoires de pissenlits. Venez apprendre des nouvelles méthodes de les préparer. Il y aura aussi un tirage pour gagner notre nouveau livret de recettes de pissenlit et un kiosque pour enfants où ils pourront apprendre une nouvelle façon de jouer avec leur nourriture. Trouvez toutes ces infos et bien d'autres au kiosque du Collectif alimentaire de Hudson; Ainsi que les détails de notre plus récent projet; Le Projet d’arbres fruitiers de Hudson Arrivez l’esprit et l’appétit ouverts, Vous trouverez des plats à vendre et à déguster, dont un pain nourrissant avec salade; pâtes recouvertes de pesto au pissenlit; soda de pissenlit et bardane, et plus… Grignotez en parcourant les tables de nos marchands: Vendeur de miel Kiosque des fées: Jardin des fées avec lectures de Victoria Rage Dôme de guérison avec méditation de Reiki gratuite Spectacles de musique et de poésie Kiosque des enfants: jeux de pissenlits et activités d'art |