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

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

Seed-saving: Keeping the Growing Going!

14Sep09

Join us as Maria Kasstan, a member of Seeds of Diversity, shares with us how we can save the seed from our gardens so that we can keep the cycle of growing going year after year. Seeds of Diversity works to preserve heirloom and rare plants through a network of seed-savers, and has a special project, Pollination Canada, a nation-wide survey of bees and other pollinators by citizen observers. A practical and informative session for beginner and seasoned gardeners alike.

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Tags: biodiversity, city, Gardening, pollination, Seed Saving, Urban Agriculture

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

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

Lima City Agriculture Beats Adversity: Film

25May09

The Paradigm Shift Project is holding their first slideshow-documentary “From the Earth to the Pot: Urban Agriculture & Food Security in Lima, Peru” on Tuesday, May 26 at 7:10pm at Mountain Equipment Co-op in Toronto (400 King Street West).

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Tags: challenge, Community Development, documentary, film, lima, marginalization, MEC, obstacles, paradigm shift project, peru, poverty, PSP, Urban Agriculture, video

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.

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Tags: event, Food Security, fundraising, lima, Ontario, paradigm, peru, Toronto, Urban Agriculture