Farmers
COG OSO provides valuable services to the regional organic farming community.
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Gardeners
We offer seminars, run a program for seniors and provide many types of resources.
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Eaters
A quick way to determine if a product is organic, is to look for a logo.
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News

Red or green? … coleslaw salad

This is one of my favourite salad recipes – wonderfully versatile and, for me, suited to both winter and summer. Just adjust the ingredients to your taste or to what you have on hand in your pantry and fridge.

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Food for Thought

Tea the way nature intended it to be

Nearly half of adult Canadians drink tea regularly – 12 billion cups a year. To make all that tea, we import roughly 50,000 tons of it annually – mostly black, some green – coming all the way from Asia or Africa. But what if we could buy tea grown and processed in the Ottawa Valley? That is the question that the founders of the Algonquin Tea Company asked themselves, and the rest is history.

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Seasonal Resources

Out of Respect for the Environment

Urban Gardeners show respect for the environment by reducing wastage and recycling. Plans for the upcoming growing season might include reduced plastic and increased composting. The first will help the environment, the second will help your urban food and flower gardens, and both will save you money.

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Welcome to COG OSO

As a regional chapter of Canadian Organic Growers, COG Ottawa – St. Lawrence – Outaouais (or COG OSO for short) strives to deliver educational and networking opportunities for farmers, gardeners, and consumers who care about organic food and healthy environments.

COG OSO is particularly supportive of local organic growing to reduce the negative impacts of long distance transportation of food and other organic products.

Our chapter’s membership base extends from the St. Lawrence River to the Outaouais in Western Québec, and encompasses all of the Ottawa Valley.