1. Agri-Food Initiatives Ontario
(AFIO) Directory
ext.268

2. Resources for Your Municipality to Support Agriculture
Growing Agriculture in Your Community
Agriculture Economic Development & Planning
Community of Practice

4. Here’s OFA’s new online Agri-Food Initiatives Directory
It has strategies, studies, initiatives and resources for agriculture economic development and planning
There are over 700 resources loaded to the Google Drive so far
This is a PDF, but the ’Buttons’ are links to the Google Drive folders

5. So if we look here, we can see an example would be Agriculture Sector Strategies. You can click on that button and you will be redirected

6. A web browser will open with the Google Drive.
From here, you can see a list of all of the available Agricultural Strategies, named by their upper tier municipality. If it is for a lower tier, that is in brackets.
For some other initiatives, it may be a broader region, such as the Golden or Greater Golden Horseshoe.
You can also click on the boxes in the top right corner, this will show it in a different view.

7. In this view you will see a preview of each file
In this view you will see a preview of each file. Let’s click on the County of Middlesex Ag Strategy.

8. You will get a preview of the Strategy.
You can then download it here. You can also download the entire folder, or even the entire directory if you want.

9. The Directory has various initiatives that might be relevant to you when working with your municipality. Ag Sector Studies,
Ag Advisory Committee terms of reference and workplans, EcDev Strategies, Land use Planning Studies, Official Plans, and more to come.
I would like to keep this as a living document, and I hope to keep it up to date with all of your input.
I am only using PDFs, so the documents will always be available, since web links often break as organizations update their websites.

10. Agri-Food Initiatives Ontario Directory
Thank You
Danielle Collins
Agri-Food Initiatives Ontario Directory
ofa.on.ca/GrowAg
So I hope these tools will help you when working with your municipality to support agriculture.