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Organic Leadership & Achievement Award-winners
The following individuals, including farmers, research scientists and
graduate students, have received recognition by their peers for outstanding
achievement. They are all involved in organic agriculture, and we congratulate
them on their accomplishments!!
Please help us recognize outstanding individuals
and farms, by letting
us know about recent award recipients you are aware of
so that we can add them to the list below.
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Congratulations
to Organic Winners of the (Ontario) Premier's Award for Agri-Food
Innovation Excellence!
- Everdale Organic Farm & Environmental Learning Centre
- Mapleton's Organic Dairy (Triangle Farm)
- Hungry Hollow Organics
- Kerr Farms Sales (Chatham) Ltd.
- Sunshine Farms
- Benner Farms Limited o/a Heritage Line Herbs (transitional)
- Pine River Ranch
- Burt Farm Country Meats
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A. Organic Farmers
- Elmer Laird inducted
into the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame More
information (PDF, 42 kb)
- Don and Marie Ruzicka of Sunrise Farm received
the "Growing Alberta" Environmental Stewardship Award for
2007. More
information
- Alex
& Robert Galarneau who operate Prairie Heritage Seeds Organics
won the Golden Sheaf Award. This award is for contributions
to agriculture and for their citizenship in the community.
- Don J. Bailey and Beaulah Bailey were awarded the North American
Kamut Grand Champion for 2008, in Regina on January 18th. This
award recognizes outstanding crop quality 2007 season crop quality.
- Victor
and Elizabeth Chrapko's
En Santé Winery won an
Alberta Best Practices Renewal Award 2007
- The Boulangers of Hartney
- 2007 Manitoba Farm Family of the Year! Chosen by the Red
River Exhibition Association. The Boulangers are the first organic farm
family to win this award!
- Marc Loiselle, Vonda, Saskatchewan
- Organic Crop Improvement Association Research and Education (OCIA
-RnE)'s Outstanding Organic Farmer of 2007
- See
news article
- Raymond Loo, Springwillow Farm, Breadalbane, Prince Edward Island
- Received Honourable Mention in the Outstanding Organic
Farmer of the Year contest held by OCIA RnE (Organic Crop
Improvement Association Research and Education)
- See news
article
- Organic Pioneer Awards
- Elmer and Gladys Laird
- Keith & Beverly Everts of Stillridge
Ranch, Gladstone Valley, Alberta
- Awarded a 2005 Stampede Country Farm Family Award
for "thriving in their business and growing from them, becoming
pillars in their community and their industry."
- Gerritt
Loo Memorial Achievement Award from ACORN (Atlantic Canada
Organic Regional Network)
- Raymond Loo, PEI - 2007
- Neil Van Nostrand, NS - 2006
- Susan Tyler and Clark Phillips - 2005
- Daphne Davey - 2004
- Sian Newman Smith - 2003
- David Cozac and Debbie Russell - 2002
- Stu Fleischhaker - 2001
- Ferme Halde, St-Mathias, Québec - dairy, grain
and medicinal herbs
- Awarded a prize at the Annual Meeting of the Federation
of organic agriculture in Québec, February 11, 2005
for their contribution to the development of organic agriculture.
- Ferme Louis D'Or, Ste-Élisabeth-de-Warwick,
Québec - dairy
- Awarded a prize at the Annual Meeting of the Federation
of organic agriculture in Québec, February 11,
2005 for their contribution to the development of organic agriculture.
- Ferdinand Besner, Mont St-Hilaire, Québec
- vegetables
- Awarded a prize at the Annual Meeting of the Federation
of organic agriculture in Québec, February 11, 2005
for their contribution to the development of organic agriculture.
- Bette and Alex Scott, Virden, Manitoba
- Steve Snider, New Norway, Alberta
- Stillridge Ranch: Keith, Bev, Eliza, Marie and Will
Everts, Gladstone Valley, Alberta - members of Diamond
Willow Range Beef Ltd
- Winners of the Calgary Stampede Farm Family 2003 award
B. Researchers
C. Educators
- Organic Pioneer Awards
- Denis LaFrance, CÉGEP of Victoriaville - instructor
in horticulture
- Awarded a prize at the Annual Meeting of the Federation
of organic agriculture in Québec, February 11, 2005
for his contribution to the
development of organic agriculture.
D. Graduate Students
- Jody Nelson has received three scholarships:
- $1,000 Merle Cail Memorial Scholarship
- $2,500 Renée Covill Scholarship
- $1,000 G.G. Smeltzer Memorial Bursary
- Donald Kerr received the 2007 Dr. Chesley E. Smith
Memorial Graduate Scholarship of $500 through the Nova Scotia Agricultural
College (NSAC) for his graduate studies related to seed quality and
the applications of organic seed treatments to improve crop establishment.
- Xin Song, Chris Neeser, Manjula Bandara and Karen.K. Tanino
won the Canadian
Society for Horticultural Science 2007 Best Graduate Student Poster
Award for "Using
Essential Oils as Sprout Inhibitors and Their Effects on Potato Seed
Tubers Performance"
- Karen Nelson won 2nd prize for her
poster on 'Soil Health Throughout an Organic Potato Rotation' at the
Canadian Society of Soil Science annual conference in St.-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier.
- Karen's work is jointly funded through the Canada Research Chair
program, OACC and the provinces of PEI and NB, and her co-supervisors
are Dr. Derek Lynch and Dr. Gilles Boiteau, AAFC Fredericton.
- Karen
Larder, NSAC, received the $1,000 Merle Cail Memorial Scholarship,
which is awarded annually to a senior undergraduate student or a graduate
student at NSAC whose course and project work reflect an interest in
organic agriculture.
- Nicole Burkhard, NSAC, received best graduate student
oral presentation award from the Canadian Society of Hort. Science,
for her paper on N dynamics under mulched organic highbush blueberries.
- Kathy Welsh from the University of Manitoba was awarded
second place for her presentation on changes in soil P under long term
organic management, at the recent Canadian Society of Agronomy (CSA)
Conference in Halifax, N.S., August 2006.
- Jacqueline Pridham, University of
Manitoba
2005 OCIA Research and Education Scholarship Winner
More Information
- Students who have won the Canadian Organic Growers (COG)'s Mary
Perlmuttter award:
- 2007 Julia Ostertag, University of British Columbia
- 2006 Ian Mauro, University of Manitoba
- 2005 Shauna MacKinnon, University of Guelph
- 2004 Alison Nelson, University of Manitoba
- 2003 Julia Wagner, University of British Columbia
- 2002 Alida Janmaat, University of British Columbia
- 2001 Ian Scott of the University of Ottawa
- Melissa Arcand, won 3rd Prize in the Graduate Student
Poster competition at the Annual meeting of the Canadian Society of
Soil Science(CSSS), May 16-18th, 2005 at Dalhousie University, Halifax,
NS
- Heather Mason (Ph.D. Candidate) won the CSA Graduate
Student Poster Award at the Plant Canada 2005 Conference, Edmonton,
AB, June 15-18, 2005.
E. Companies
- Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA) Organics Achievement
Award was presented to Dag Falck, Organic Program Manager at
Nature’s Path Foods Inc. on April 5th during CHFA Expo West. Nature's
Path Foods is North America’s largest organic breakfast cereal
manufacturer.
- Katie's
Farm Organic Dog Bakery, Clam Harbour, NS: Winner of the
2006 E.D.N. Entrepreneur of the Year Award
- Halifax Chamber of Commerce
Gold Award for Best New Business: The
Wooden Monkey, where the menu is based on organic, macrobiotic,
and locally grown fresh ingredients.
- Robert Beauchemin,Québec
President of the "Table filière biologique du Québec"
and owner of the Meunerie Milanaise.
- Awarded a prize at the Annual Meeting of the Federation
of organic agriculture in Québec, February 11, 2005
for his contribution to the
development of organic agriculture in Québec.
- Western Ag Innovations, Saskatchewan
- The company
was the 2004 winner of the NSERC Synergy award along with the University
of Saskatchewan.
*** COABC’s
Organic Harvest Awards ***
Vancouver, BC, November 4, 2006
Best Non-Alcoholic Beverage: Ethical Bean Coffee
Co.; Product: Folk Festival Blend
Best Alcoholic Beverage: Crannog Ales; Product:
Hell's Kitchen Organic Ale
Best Bakery Product: Vancouver Croissant; Product:
Organic Croissant
Best Processed Meat Product: Organa Farms; Product:
Certified Organic Beef Jerky, Certified Organic Smoked Ham Boneless,
Organa Farms Certified Organic Beef Jerky:
Best Dairy Product- TIE: Olympic Dairy Products
Inc.; Product: Organic yogurt; Avalon Dairy: Product: Aged Cheddar
Best Processed Product: Valentine Farm; Product:
Certified Organic Vinegars
Best Horticultural Producer : Alderlea Farm
Best Livestock Producer: Thomas Reid Farms
Best Organic Dairy Producer: Jerseyland Farm
Best Organic Direct Farm Marketing: Klippers Organic
Acres
Best farm-based organic home delivery business (CSA / 'Box'
Program):Wildflight Farm
Best Organic Integrated Farm System (Sustainable Practices):
Olera Farm
Best Retailer: Capers Community Markets
Best Home Delivery (Non Farm):Urban Harvest Organic
Delivery
Best Commitment to Organics by a Restaurant: Aprodite’s
Café & Pie Shop
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