Urban Food Production - Toronto€¦ · Good, healthy food for all The City saying YES!!! to...
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Urban Food Production: Putting Food First: Government and Communities
Partnering to make Toronto a more food secure cityDebbie Field, Executive Director FoodShare Toronto, February 5, 2009
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We live in a farm, but we literally have paved paradise and put up a parking lot….
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Part 1: GardensPart 1: Gardens••In backyards;In backyards;
••Allotments;Allotments;
••Yards of Social HousingYards of Social Housing
••In City parks;In City parks;
••On the sides of roads;On the sides of roads;
••In orphan spaces;In orphan spaces;
••In school yards;In school yards;
••In public land.In public land.
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We have a long and vibrant historyof CommunityGardening andGrowing Food in the City
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Gardens grow more than vegetables…but when we start, the City, the school board, TCH, usually says No!!!!
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Health benefits of growing fresh foodHealth benefits of growing fresh food
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Gardens on Gardens on roofs and roofs and balconies balconies
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Growing Growing inside inside
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Gardening can be an Gardening can be an important part of income important part of income substitution substitution
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Bengali bottle neck
gourd
Bitter melonWinter melon
Bengali long
squash
… andImport substitution
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Keeping BeesKeeping Bees
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Creating Edible Creating Edible landscapes landscapes
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Fruit Trees Fruit Trees
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Planting Fruit Trees Planting Fruit Trees
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Corn on the banks of the Gardiner expressway…Tomatoes in the middle of University Avenue????
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Keeping Small Keeping Small LivestockLivestock
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Part 2: CompostingPart 2: Composting
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Composting:successful midscale
composting: even meet scraps without smell or vermin on a
residential street
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Compost with wormsCompost with worms
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Composting in neighbourhoodsComposting in neighbourhoods
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Mid-Scale compostingcould replace the need for new digesters and help fund food community gardens and urban ag projects.
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Part 3: Urban Farms: From community gardening to urban farms on public land: hospitals, school yards……
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Sunshine Garden at CAMH Sunshine Garden at CAMH –– only only Garden that has a Market Stall Garden that has a Market Stall
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Greenhouse production at CAMH
Certified organic sprouts
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Build Urban Build Urban Farms in School Farms in School
YardsYards
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Field to Table Schools
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The Edible School Yard The Edible School Yard from Berkeley, California from Berkeley, California and the Annapolis Valley and the Annapolis Valley
in Nova Scotiain Nova Scotia
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A new regulatory A new regulatory and problem and problem solving process is solving process is needed, building on needed, building on past City strengthspast City strengths
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TORONTO PARTNERS FOR STUDENT NUTRITION
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Community
Gardening
Composting
Urban Farms
Toronto Partners for Community
Gardening and Urban
Agriculture
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The City saying YES!!! to
Growing food everywhere!!
Breaking down institutional barriers by bringing together key departments in the City, the school boards, Toronto Community Housing and community organizations to work together to turn Toronto into a more food secure City, a community garden, edible landscape and urban farm.