County Food Hub benefits through $75k investment by Ag. Canada
JASON PARKS STAFF WRITER An initiative that started as a bid to save Sophiasburgh Central School from closure and has flourished into a commercial resource…
Bay of Quinte MP Neil Ellis
Ellis trumpets two year, $101 million investment in Canada’s wine industry
JASON PARKS STAFF WRITER Investments by way of the Government of Canada’s 2021 budget will directly support the wine industry in Prince Edward County…
Federal government increases youth jobs program in 2021
JASON PARKS STAFF WRITER Local small businesses and not-for-profit employers have until the end of the month to apply for a grant to help employ…
Ellis trumpets supply management compensation package for affected agri-businesses
JASON PARKS STAFF WRITER There may have been a few doubting Thomases (And Prinzens and Byfords and Thompsons and…) when the federal government told dairy,…
Ellis appointed Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada post
JASON PARKS STAFF WRITER Bay of Quinte MP Neil Ellis has been appointed to a portfolio he can “grow” into. On Thursday, it was announced…
Local food sector receives $100,000 for farm-to-table operations
DESIRÉE DECOSTE STAFF WRITER The local food sector received a major investment of $100,000 Thursday afternoon with a sequence of infusions in farm-to-table food…