Nature’s Pickin’s in British Columbia Joins The Localize Project We are excited to announce that we partnered with Nature’s Pickin’s in Abbotsford, British Columbia to launch the Localize Your Food initiative in their store. A fresh pop of color from Nature’s Pickins country-vintage tags powered by Localize is making it easy to spot the vast array of local and regional food products on their shelves. Nature’s…
Localize Has Won the Venture Prize! What a night! Last night was a very big night for the Localize team, as Meghan (once again) led us to a big win, scoring 1st place in the TEC VenturePrize and the Edmonton Journal’s Peoples’ Choice Award! The TEC VenturePrize annual business planning competition is now in its 12th…
Know Your Local Localize has recently had the opportunity to be interviewed by the folks at GoodForks about what we do. Check out what they have written about us, and about how we are working on making food origin more apparent to consumers. During this time, we have also learned a little bit about Goodforks! They are…
Launch Party Edmonton: Celebrating Past Successes, Growing New Connections At the end of November Localize received an exclusive invitation to be one of ten innovative start-ups featured at Launch Party Edmonton. A space for creatives, entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers, consumers and supporters to meet Edmonton’s brightest entrepreneurs, demo their products, and celebrate everything that our startup community has…
Localize Labs: What’s the arm’s-length value of local food? For those of you who’ve read my previous blogs, you know I’m a word nerd. I’m motivated to learn about the ways we talk about food and the stories that we tell about it. The Localize team often talks about local food being at “arm’s…
Edmonton’s Volunteer Food Council This week we are celebrating Localize’s own Meghan Dear on being appointed to Edmonton’s Volunteer Food Council. Liane Faulder has written a great overview of the Food Council, a few of its members and its role. Here is a sneak peak, but be sure to head over and read the…
The Food Story At the end of April, I had the pleasure of speaking at the TEDx Edmonton Salon Series entitled Food for Thought. The two other speakers and I represented the broad representation of food topics that are at the forefront of public discussion today. Tom Lynch-Staunton from Livestock Gentec discussed his work in technology…
Local food is more than just the miles I have been intrigued by the idea of a 50-mile diet ever since the first reference I heard to it a few years ago. For me, the concept wasn’t really about the 50-mile delineation, but rather about choosing foods that were being grown from closer to home…
Food Journeys: A Reflection on the Food Secure Canada National Assembly The Localize blog has been quiet lately! Matthew, our summer communications fellow, has lodged his complaint by writing a blog-reflection about his experience at the recent 2012 Food Secure Canada’s National Assembly in Edmonton. Did you attend the FSC National Assembly? Let us…
Crowd Sourcing a Definition for Local One of the enduring debates in local food circles is the question of what ‘local’ should mean. This question has actually been a focal point of our learning here at Localize for over a year, as we examine the many facets of local food. It turns out that…