Food

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• foodways

• multicultural expressions

• agricultural traditions

• through food cultivation, production, distribution and sharing

• Ontario has a long history of food production that stretches back to our Indigenous past. For millennia, the people of what is now Southern Ontario have grown corn, peas, squash, beans, sunflowers, wild rice and more

• European farming practices arrived in the late 18th century

• expanding agrarian economy

• includes historical field patterns

• shape roads and maps

• reflected in

• barns, silos, dairies, farmers’ markets,

• cheese factories, canneries, distilleries

• Ontario farmers have adapted to market changes by introducing new crops, livestock, technology and agricultural management practices

• protects and cares for several natural and cultural heritage properties

• sites protected by easements, including wetlands, forests, farms, orchards and historical properties.

• hunting, plants, medicine, farming and food production, and much of the architecture associated with it.

• tangible and intangible heritage connections to food

• New Canadians bring a tremendous knowledge of food and food preparation from their homelands

• food-based connections

• from soul food to maple syrup heritage to the history of the apple.