Get Exceptional Green Documentaries in Hamilton Guaranteed

06Apr10

The 3rd Annual Environmental Film and Arts Festival is happening this April 7-24, 2010. And it has an exceptional line of hard hitting docs you’ll want to see. Organized by Francesca Trifone and her partner it promises to be a powerfully informative week for locals and visitors alike.

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Tags: bottle, documentaries, environmental, Food, Hamilton, Movies, oil, Ontario, sharks, water

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.

Filed under: Agriculture, Food Distribution, Food Retail, Internships, Jobs/Careers, Local Agriculture, Ontario, Organic Agriculture, Skill Development, Soil Management, Toronto, Urban Agriculture, Youth   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: Agriculture, greenhouse, Internships, job, Ontario, sales, Toronto, YEIP, YMCA

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)!

Filed under: Agriculture, City Fringe Agriculture, Events, Food, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Gardening, Green Roofs, Local Agriculture, Meetings, Ontario, Policy and Law, Rooftop Agriculture, Toronto, Urban Agriculture, Urban Development   |  Leave a Comment
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

Cheap Food as Charity? Shaky Foundations?

20Apr09

Sunny gives a video summary of the first 2 panels (low income food access and locally sustainable food supply) at the Ontario’s Test Kitchen Conference.

Filed under: Conferences, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Food, Food Distribution, Food Retail, Food Safety, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Health and Wellness, Non Profits/Not for Profits, Policy and Law, Soil Management, Toronto   |  2 Comments
Tags: Alison Blay-Palmer, alternative, ALUS, change, conference, Daily Bread Food Bank, distribution, environmental services, Food, GET, income, Janet Poppendieck, kitchen, land, Local Food Plus, Marin Organic, Ontario, reform, security, sink, Society, solutions, sovereignty, STOP, sustainable, Sweet Charity, system, use, video, Wayne Roberts, YuRanch

Fundraiser 4 Urban Agriculture Doc in Peru!

27Feb09

It will be a fun night of music and dancing with great djs with all proceeds going to The Paradigm Shift’s next documentary film project in Lima, Peru.

Filed under: Agriculture, Events, Food Security, International, Urban Agriculture   |  1 Comment
Tags: event, Food Security, fundraising, lima, Ontario, paradigm, peru, Toronto, Urban Agriculture

Tincture Making with Marcia Dixon

02Dec08

In this three hour, hands on workshop learn the basics of medicinal plant harvesting, drying and tincture making. Using Valerian root as the example you will learn how to harvest, clean and prepare this medicinal root for drying and tincture making.

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Tags: event, healing, herb, medicinal, Medicine, naturopathic, Ontario, root, Scadding Court, soothe, tincture, Toronto, Valerian, workshop