By Haley Ritchie, Ottawa Metro News, June 25, 2015
This isn’t the community garden in your local park – thanks to a lease from the
National Capital Commission, Just Food farmers have found a home in Ottawa’s
greenbelt. Last week, the farming non-profit signed a 25-year lease for 150
acres of the National Capital Commission’s greenbelt land. “This city-wide
resource will support food and farming in Ottawa for decades to come,” said Just
Food board chair, Patricia Ballamingie. The land is intended to be a producing
farm, but it will via
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