Quebec – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Jean-Claude Poissant, Member of Parliament for La Prairie and Parliamentary Secretary to the federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Lawrence MacAulay; and Laurent Lessard, Quebec Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, applaud the recent launch of the website “Cultive ta ville” [“cultivate your city”], an information portal on urban agriculture. A project of the Laboratoire sur l’agriculture urbaine, it received $25,000 in funding through Programme Proximité under the Growing Forward 2 program.
Aimed at amateur gardeners, community groups, teachers and municipalities alike, the “Cultive ta ville” website indexes all urban agriculture initiatives in Quebec. For example, it allows users to locate community and institutional gardens. It also has a newsfeed to keep users informed about urban agriculture-related events and activities.
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