Saturday is a day to celebrate local food here and right across the country for that matter around the world.
August 1st has been dubbed as Food Day Canada, when people are being asked to support local farmers and enjoy locally produced food and take part in the Worlds Longest Barbecue.
Anita Stewart is an award winning author of 14 different cookbooks and also the founder of Cuisine Canada.
She started the Barbecue back in 2003 at the height of the BSE crisis to show support for local Beef farmers.
Over the last nine years, the initiative has taken off, not just in Canada but around the world as Canadians at 6 PM local time fire up the barbecue and cook up some local food.
She says over the past few years, challenges facing farmers seem to be increasing with the high Canadian dollar hurting exports and the H1N1 virus hammering pork producers.
Stewart says Food Day is one way to show our support for the food farmers provide to us.
She also is encouraged at how the local food movement has taken off especially in our region where she says there are many farmers producing and sell good high quality food at either local farmers markets or thorough farm gate sales.
Stewart also says people are begriming to find more local produce on the shelves of smaller grocery stores in many communities as the interest in local food continues to grow.
You can post your Food Day menu at www.foodday.ca