Greenhouse Operations & Sales Coordinator, f/t (YEIP), FoodCycles, Toronto ON

15Mar10

FoodCycles is offering a 9 month, full time Greenhouse Operations and Sales Coordinator position.

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Tags: Agriculture, greenhouse, Internships, job, Ontario, sales, Toronto, YEIP, YMCA

Announcing the FoodCycles Membership and CSA: 2010

25Feb10

Are you interested in fresh, local and organic, chemical free food? Do you want to build a movement for real food and real change in Toronto? Are you ready to build a stronger community and environment through food and farming — in small and large ways? Then get a FoodCycles membership, do volunteering or get a CSA harvest share.

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Tags: Toronto, Food, local, Food Security, CSA, Urban Agriculture, FoodCycles, Compost, city farming, News, cycles, worm, vermicompost, market garden, Downsview Park, nonprofit, not for profit, Social Enterprise, community shared agriculture, membership

7 Points for Fantastic Food and Cities

22Nov09

Dr. Wayne Roberts spoke on food policy and a new vision for cities at Toledo Library in the US. As always his witty humour is always a hit. The photos he uses in the presentation are also quite insightful. Dr. Roberts also proposes hopeful solutions and answers to fixing cities and the food system. If you want the quick written summary you can read it below.

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Tags: careers, cities, colleges, Community Development, community food systems, Community Gardens, development, direct trade, economy, fair trade, Food, job, policy, public health, standard of living, urban, Wayne Roberts

FoodCycles Officially Ignites Its Toronto City Farm

14Sep09

Join FoodCycles, Toronto’s first city farm (http://foodcycles.org), for their official launch party at Parc Downsview Park on Friday, October 2, 2009. The even

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Tags: celebration, city farming, Compost, cycles, Downsview Park, Events, festivity, Food, Food Security, market garden, News, Toronto, Urban Agriculture, vermicompost, volunteer, worm

How Vegetarianism Can Stop Global Warming

20Aug09

Eating meat spews out more air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions than driving cars. In fact, cutting meat out helps more than switching to a Toyota Prius (2 times as much) or eating locally (12 times as much). Unfortunately lots of people like eating lots of meat as we’ve mentioned in a previous post.

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Tags: animals, consumption, energy, food miles, freight, health, lagoons, lifecycle, Lifestyle, manure, meat, Prius, Toyota, vegan, vegetarian

City Farm Hands – FoodCycles, Toronto, ON, ft/pt [Volunteer Job]

10Jul09

Are you interested in:  City farming, gardening and growing food?  Learning the practical side of environmental and food issues?  Getting lots of exercise and fresh air?  Composting and creating good soil?  Learning skills to get you a paying job?  Are you ready to make a difference!

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Tags: assistance, city, farming, FoodCycles, News, Urban Agriculture, volunteer

Breaking Ground: 2nd Farm Work Gig Revs Up

04Jul09

Looking for some exercise and stress relief? Need something extra to do while vacationing close to home? Or looking to kill time between gigs? Well there’s plenty to do right here at the FoodCycles farm (http://bit.ly/ATb3G and http://bit.ly/YDDfp).

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Tags: Agriculture, city, Compost, cultivation, Downsview, farm, farming, Food, FoodCycles, garden, growing, horticulture, News, Park, pdp, urban

Plant the Hot Stuff: FoodCycles Seeds the Field

14Jun09

FoodCycles first city farm field planting days will be Sat-Mon, Jun 20-22 at our field space at Keele and Sheppard (Downsview Park, http://bit.ly/ATb3G and http://bit.ly/YDDfp). It’ll be a potluck lunch each day with music, readying the soil and of course summer planting and seeding. Delicate flowers, sprawling squash, spicy peppers and wonderful smelling herb seedlings from the greenhouse will finally find a home on the field after soaking up some intense heat inside.

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Tags: celebration, crop planting, direct seeding, Events, field planting, News, transplants, work bee

2 Vital Meetings on Toronto City Farming!

14Jun09

Joe Nasr, food security professor and an executive member of MetroAg gives us the heads up on 2 very important meetings on establishing urban agriculture in Toronto. Please forward to everyone you know who’s part of the movement (friends, family, allies, partners, interested parties)!

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Tags: city farming, city hall, City of Toronto, environmental movements, Events, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, growers, Meetings, Ontario, social movements, Toronto, Toronto Urban Growers Union, TUG, urban, Urban Agriculture

Eco-Friendly Rum and Wine: Cocktail Delights

28May09

Sierra Club’s The Green Life column gives you some eco-credible rum brands for cocktail mixing. We also provide a list of eco-credible Ontario wineries for your tasting pleasure.

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Tags: bartender, booze, Environment, frog pond, local, organic, rum, southbrook, spirits, tequila, vodka, winery