This document provides statistics about food-bearing trees and food waste in Ottawa, Canada. It estimates there are over 235,000 potential food-bearing trees across the city's public and private lands that could yield over 7 million pounds of fruit annually if harvested. However, currently only a small fraction of the potential harvest is being collected. The document encourages various ways for people to get involved to reduce waste and make better use of available local food resources.
20. Fruit & Tree Nut Farms in Canada (2012)
# of Farms Total Operating Revenues Net Income
1,795 $10,000 to $49,999 $ - 832
860 $50,000 to $99,999 $ 2,086
1,110 $100,000 to $249,999 $ 20,759
510 $250,000 to $499,999 $ 56,021
580 $500,000 and over $ 291,505
60% of
Farms
22% of
Farms
source: Statistics Canada – CANSIM Table 002-0047, accessed November 2014
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29. Get Involved!
• Gardens – Donate a Row
• Farms – Community Harvest
• Food Service – City Harvest
• Food Retail – Fresh Harvest
• Policy – Ottawa Food Policy Council
• Trees – Hidden Harvest
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35. “Durable Life” / “Best Before” Date
• Do not guarantee product safety
• Must appear on: pre-packaged foods that will keep
fresh for 90 days or less, and are packaged at a place
other than the retail store from which they are sold.
Expiration Date
• Must appear on: Formulated liquid diets, meal
replacements, nutritional supplements, infant formula
• Food should be discarded after the expiration date
“Use by” Date
• may replace "best before" for pre-packaged fresh
yeast only.
Editor's Notes
Hidden Harvest Ottawa is looking to find these back yard, established trees who’s harvest sometimes goes to waste and organizes harvest events with energetic volunteers to put their food to good use! NOTE: Jam Session is only 60mins and needs interaction. “How can open data and traditional knowledge be combined to feed communities”. Thinking 40 min interactive presentation then 20 mins discussion.
- If you met us on the street…
-Opportunities:
Education (give others fruit goggles) / Local Processing /Our plan (365 trees) & Reality (17,000)
-Challenges:
Inconvenient Fruit (quality) / Wasting Food is not taboo / Farming is not valued / Fruit Trees are not valued
Pick and share fruit and nuts that would otherwise go to waste
Small groups get together, split harvest four ways
Fruit Goggles.
> Pop quiz – If you don’t know what this is, we want to hear your guesses.
> Met at a wild edible course learned about Black Walnuts, started to see them everywhere.
Fruit Goggles
Fruit Goggles – guessing the fruit
Talk about the opportunity
Opportunity: Local food moment is increasing local processing capacity.
Interactivity: Scenario: OK so we want to make a profit out of harvesting fruit and processing it. You are at a farmers’ market talking to an apple farmer who grows, picks, processes and sells their goods. You are helping us put together a business plan and can ask the farmer one question. Write down the ONE QUESTION that you would ask him to help inform our business planning. You have one minute – GO! Keep your one question and we’ll ask some of you to share once we get to the Challenges slides.
Opportunity – City Trees
There is a lot out there on city propery:
And there are far more potential food trees with harvests that regularly fall to the ground. This is a map of city-owned food trees – you can find it on our website & check out your neighbourhood.
Data conference – Going to leave this in and only focus on the potential 7.69 Million lbs
Challenges:
Challenges: Wasting food is not taboo. Fines for littering, fines for not recycling.
Ottawa - $305 fine for littering
Gatineau - $200 fine for not recycling
What about food waste and our City’s green bin program? Well, in 2010 taxpayers were charged $2.5 million for not throwing ENOUGH food into the green bin programs.
Citizens choose to value litter, get mad; it’s up to all of us to take responsibility for food waste
Challenge: Food trees are not valued.
INTERACTIVE - START by sharing the one question attendees would have asked the apple farmer at the market.
Thank You
End of Slide Show. Leave bank. Additional slides for reference below:
Food waste
Guess the Fruit
Partnerships
Website
Labelling
Ottawa Winter Fair prize-winning pig in 1968. It was raised by my Uncle Hugh and ate food & farm scraps.
The root causes – Waste Pyramid
And what is this?
- Hackberry. They’re everywhere!
What we plant matters.
Huge opportunity with EAB.
Let’s plant good trees1
Hidden Harvest intends to find these foods going to waste, and put them to good use – from
City property and from backyards around the city.
Goodness knows we need the food! More than 43,000 people access the food bank for support each month.