Cultivating community
and connection

How Guelph-Wellington is creating Canada’s first circular food economy through action

Year 1: January–October 2020

In 2019, the City of Guelph and the County of Wellington was awarded $10 million through Infrastructure Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge to develop Canada’s first circular food economy. We call this initiative Our Food Future, and it features nine pathfinder projects and several Living Lab projects that will help us achieve our ambitious goals. Cultivating community and connection—which will be updated annually—compiles details about the four-year initiative, including:

• Approaches we’re taking,
• Lessons we’ve learned,
• Definitions we’ve developed or adopted,
• Tools, templates and technology we’ve developed or adopted,
• Success stories, and
• Our performance to date on key indicators.