March is Nutrition Month across Canada! This year's theme highlights the benefits of choosing foods that are grown and produced close to home.  Please read on to learn how you and your family can celebrate Canada’s best.

• Visit FOOD IN PETERBOROUGH! This site tells you how you can get involved with different food projects or become a member of local food co-ops or community gardens. Simply click on Get involved and check out all the local opportunities.
  
  
• Bring your family to a local Farmer’s Market! You can speak directly to the farmer or food producer and ask them how their food was grown or prepared.
  
  
• The Peterborough and District Farmers' Market has an impressive list of farm fresh products available including cheese, farm fresh eggs, fresh locally grown meat, vegetables, fruit and maple syrup! The market is open every Saturday all year 7am to 1pm - Morrow Park - George & Lansdowne Street.

• Peterborough Wednesday Farmers' Market, Est. 1997
  Peterborough, Ontario. Open Wednesdays 9 am-2 pm from May 6-October 7 -Under the town clock, On Charlotte Street between George & Water.

• A variety of other local Farmers’ Markets are open seasonally throughout the County 
  
  
• Visit Kawartha Choice FarmFresh to find out where you can go for dinner or shop to find our tastiest foods! This organization brings together farmers, producers, chefs and retailers who promote and sell locally grown and produced foods right here in the Kawarthas.
  
  
• Visit Our Table to experience a culinary journey of Peterborough and the Kawarthas. This website brought to you from Peterborough and the Kawarthas Tourism profiles local restaurants, caterers and retailers that produce wonderful recipes using local foods.
  
  
• Look for the Foodland Ontario symbol when you are shopping. It’s an easy way for you to identify Ontario foods in your grocery stores and farmers’ markets, and a great way to ensure that you pick Ontario freshness. ()

What's happening locally to celebrate food...from field to table:

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Listen to the KRUZ FM on March 2nd, 2010 at 7:45 am while host Mike Melnik interviews local Dietitian Susan Hubay. Check out a sample recipe...

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Watch - To Your Health on CHEX 5:30 Newswatch on March 8th to hear about local sources of nourishing and tasty food. Check out a sample recipe...

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Join our Peterborough County-City Health Unit Dietitian Erica Diamond for a Supermarket Tour on March 10th at 10:00 am. We will tour Ken’s No Frills on Lansdowne Street West and learn how to spot local products in our stores. Call the Canadian Diabetes Association Office at 742-2733 to register.

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Saturday, March 13th from 1 to 4 pm, drop into St. James United Church for SEEDY SATURDAY.   This is a chance to trade and buy seeds for your backyard veggies patch.

Check out these other exciting Nutrition websites that help celebrate food…from field to table!:

Dietitians of Canada:
Dairy Farmers of Canada:
Hellman’s-Eat Real Eat Local

Do you have questions about nutrition and healthy living? Visit EatRight Ontario or call 1-877-510-510-2 to talk to a Registered Dietitian today for free.