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

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

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

[Job] Urban Agriculture Manager, Greenest City

27Jan09

Greenest City has four integrated program streams: urban agriculture, youth, healthy communities and jobs & skills. Programs focus on making Parkdale a more food secure & sovereign neighbourhood. The Urban Agriculture Manager will be responsible for the management and delivery of the urban agriculture program.
Urban Agriculture Program

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Tags: Agriculture, career, city, farming, jobs, management, parkdale, Toronto, urban

Shaping the Region: A Better Toronto?

19Dec08

The Neptis Foundation has commissioned several studies that examine planning policies in the context of Ontario’s new Growth Plan for the Toronto metropolitan region. In the second of this two-part series, the findings from two research projects will be presented.

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Tags: development, Food, Food Security, form, growth, intensification, planning, policy, presentation, reception, research, seminar, smart, sovereignty, transport, urban

6,000 Pounds of Produce on a Quarter-Acre

18Nov08

Robert McFalls’ new film, HomeGrown is the inspiring story of the Dervaes family – father, son and two daughters – that run a small organic farm in the heart of urban Pasadena, California.

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Tags: acre, biodiesel, biofuel, cultivation, energy, farming, Food, frontier, grid, local, off, prairie, solar, sub, sufficiency, urban

Hmong Farmers: Booted Off Their Urban Land

27Oct08

4 acre piece of land farmed by Hmong Farmers in Fresno. The city is trying to push them off the land to build a police substation, the land currently feeds 300
peoples.

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Tags: Agriculture, city, development, ethnic, Food, Hmong, immigrant, insecurity, racial, security, sovereignty, urban