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

Your Food, Your Choice: Grounds for Change

04Feb10

COG Toronto is holding its annual conference with an impressive line up of speakers in the organics movement including Baerbel Hoehm, the first Agricultural Minister for the German Green Party and Michael Schmidt, the raw milk dairy farmer. The event will happen on Saturday, February 20, 2010 9 am to 5 pm at the University of Toronto Conference Centre (89 Chestnut St., Toronto).

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Tags: frankenfoods, gmo, LMOs, Margaret Webb, Michael Schmidt, Organic Agriculture, organic farming, organics, Percy Schmeiser, Pfenning, raw milk, Rick Smith, Tom Manley

Dirt Fights Climate Change Guaranteed

01Dec09

The UK’s Soil Association just put out a report 5 days before Copenhagen that farming’s biggest thing is in fighting climate change — putting carbon back into the soil and earth. Organic, chemical free farms have dirt that has 20-28% more carbon (the lego brick of all life) than your burned out non-organic, chemical fried farm. If the whole world turned to organic farming, you could cut greenhouse gas emissions (not to mention air pollution or acid rain) by 11%.

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Tags: biochar, carbon, climate change, COP15, copenhagen, dirt, greenhouse gas emissions, Soil Management

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

Killing Ants with Jack Hammers? Biotech’s Failure

12Jul09

Sunny talks about how biotechnology and pesticides are band aids that don’t deal with the root problem – the health of the plant and the environment while genetic engineering expert Doug Gurian-Sherman says that biotechnology can’t possibly feed the world for the same reasons indirectly.

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Tags: biotechnology, factory farming, genes, genetic engineering, genetically modified organisms, GMOs, healthcare, LMOs

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

Real Deal? New Test to Prove It’s Organic

02Jun09

Now a researcher in Germany has demonstrated the feasibility of laboratory testing to determine whether a carton of organic milk is what it says it is.

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Tags: academics, label, organic, research, testing