In this Issue1. Toronto Community Gardening Network Workshops 2. Good Food Market Training Seminars 4. Celebrating Food and Farm Workers 5. The Role of Food and Agriculture in the Design and Planning of Buildings & Cities 6. Growing Soil, Growing Community: How to Compost in the City 7. This is Not a Reading Series 9. New Community Gardening Space Available 10. Deepening Roots Broadening Vision
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Toronto Community Gardening Network WorkshopsMark your calendars! Register now for the free upcoming community garden workshops, part of a series put on by the Toronto Community Food Animators (FoodShare Toronto, The Stop Community Food Centre and the Afri-Can Food Basket). Organizing and Building your Community Garden Date: Saturday May 10th, 10am-1pm Location: Scarborough at 20 Gordonridge Place and North York Driftwood Community Centre , 4401 Jane Street, North York. To register or for more information, please contact Kristin Wheatcroft at 416-652-7867 or via e-mail: urbanag@thestop.org. Good Food Market Training SeminarsToronto Community Food Animators (FoodShare Toronto, The Stop Community Food Centre and the Afri-Can Food Basket) are offering two Good Food Market training seminars in May: May 4: How to Start a Good Food Market, 10am-3pm. May 31: How to Get Funds & Resources For Your Good Food Market, 10am-3pm. Where: Training will be held at FoodShare, 90 Croatia Street (main entrance on Brock), Toronto. To register, or for more information, contact: Ayal at 416 363-6441 x227 or email ayal@foodshare.net Wild Things with WingsOn May 3 join FoodShare and partners Seeds of Diversity Canada, Evergreen and the David Suzuki Foundation for "Wild Things With Wings: A Celebration of Native Pollinators in Toronto." There will be two events: - 4:30pm-6:30pm at the Danforth Music Halla late afternoon event with David Suzuki, Marjorie Harris, Dr. Laurence Packer (bee expert) and songs from Jason Collett, hosted by Bob McDonald of Quirks and Quarks. Tickets for the Danforth Music Hall event are available through the Music Hall and TicketMaster. For more information, visit www.davidsuzuki.org Celebrating Food and Farm Workers:Exhibit, launch and discussion On Friday, May 2 at 4:30pm, join FoodShare and Community Arts Ontario Forum as they co-present the opening exhibit of From One Place to Another: Las Dos Realidades. This event is free, and features Hamilton poet Klyde Broox performing a poem written in collaboration with Trinidadians working on a Norfolk County Strawberry Farm. Author Deborah Barndt will be launching a second edition of Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, as well as a Spanish Edition Rutas Enmaranadas: Mujer, Trabajo y Globalizacion. She will read excerpts from her books in honour of the alternative food programs that FoodShare promotes and other groups who support migrant farm workers. Location: FoodShare, hallway and warehouse, 90 Croatia St, Toronto (entrance on Brock). Click here for directions The Role of Food and Agriculture in the Design and Planning of Buildings & CitiesMay 2-4, 2008, Ryerson University You are invited to attend a symposium investigating the opportunities for creative cooperation between shapers of the built environment and actors in urban food and agriculture systems. It brings together, for the first time, individuals from the full range of professions of the built environment who have recently been tackling challenges of the urban food system. They will explore the interface between the physical aspects of urban food provision and distribution and urban design and architecture. After an introductory survey as part of a public lecture, this meeting will address a number of issues, grouped into five themes, and includes field visits and an exhibition. The symposium website at http://architecturefood.googlepages.com contains the schedule, registration information, rates and lodging options. For any questions, please write to: architecturefood@gmail.com Growing Soil, Growing Community: How to Compost in the CityMay 27, 3:30pm, Trinity Bellwoods Farmers’ Market Location: Trinity Bellwoods park, north-west corner at Dundas and Shaw St. Come learn how to turn your kitchen scraps and yard waste into rich soil! This workshop will explain how composting works, how you can compost anywhere (in an apartment building or in your backyard), and how to work with your neighbours and community members when setting up a composting system. There will be examples of vermicompost bins and resources available (including a composting manual). Experienced composters will give advice about where to source out materials to start composting and will answer questions from those who are already composting. This workshop will be hosted by Trinity Bellwoods Farmers Market and taught by FoodShare and FoodCycles, a new community-based urban agriculture and composting group in Toronto. All are welcome, from those who have never composted to long-time worm lovers. This is Not a Reading SeriesOn Tuesday, May 27 at 7:30pm Pages Books and Magazines presents Barbara Kingsolver & Steven L. Hopp , authors of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. The reading will be held at the MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto. Tickets are $10 and are available at Pages Books and Magazines, 256 Queen Street West (in person ticket sales only). For more information please call 416-598-1447. Co-presented by The Stop Community Food Centre and Toronto Food Policy Council. Compost AvailableComposted horse manure from the Sosnicki organic farm is now available at the Dufferin Grove Farmers’ Market. Ben Sosnicki will be there with potatoes, perogies and a truckload of horse compost! These bags of compost are perfect for flowerbeds and vegetable garden preparation, and are available for $5. Each bag will cover 12 sq feet, approximately 2" thick. They are quite heavy, so plan to bring a cart. Please see Ben at the market beginning April 24th to pre-order your compost. The Dufferin Grove Farmers' Market is located in Dufferin Grove Park, on Dufferin St., south of Bloor, right across form the Dufferin Mall. Open every Thursday, 3pm top 7:00 pm New Community Gardening Space AvailableJavaMama, fantastic local cafe/coffee roaster on Bathurst at Dupont is looking for some loving hands to turn the backyard space of the business into a garden. The space is very spacious and welcoming, albeit somewhat shady in the summer months. The owner has had people work the space before with lovely results, and the previous gardeners grew vegetables as well as decorative plants. She would be able to provide something in terms of "funding" to whoever wants to take on the project. If any of you are interested, please contact Susan at javamama.susan@gmail.com. She would be more than happy to answer any questions. You are cordially invited to participate in the 3rd annual: Deepening Roots Broadening Vision Summer Internship in Organic Agriculture **ONLY THREE SPOTS LEFT** A unique program bringing youth the very best innovations in organic agriculture and leadership training. Including: Click here to view a video from last year's internship: www.youtube.com/deepeningroots Contact for more information: deepeningroots@artofliving.ca or call 413-537-9915 Garden Jane's WorkshopsGarden Jane is a Toronto area business that grows thriving gardens, gardeners and garden culture. We use nature as our guide to build soil and ecosystem health, and to grow edibles and other useful plants. Garden Jane's updated May and June schedule. There are several exciting new public events, workshops and even a new workshop series on the horizon. Here is the scoop: Sat May 10th, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. (Pre-registration required) Sat May 17th, 9:30 - 12:30 p.m. (Pre-registration required) Sat May 24th and Sun May 25th, 10-4 (public event) Mon May 26th, 7 - 9 p.m. (Pre-register at 416-252-3665) Sun June 1st, 10:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. (Pre-registration required) Wed June 4th, 6 - 8 p.m. Thur June 5th, 6 - 8 p.m. Sat June 7th and 8th (free entrance, pay what you can activities) Tues June 10th, 17th and 24th, 7 - 9 p.m. Wed June 18th, 7 - 9 p.m. (Pre-register at 416-252-3665) Sat June 21st, 3:30 - 6:30 p.m. (tip jar) Jane Hayes Job PostingPosition: Communications Manager Local Food Plus Deadline: May 9, 2008 One-year contract, Full-time, based in Toronto, Ontario HOW TO APPLY: (do not reply to this FoodShare email!) We thank all applicants for their interest, but advise that The TCGN E News is a monthly electronic newsletter of the Toronto Community Garden Network. If you have events, jobs, volunteer postings or items of interest, please email them to Ravenna Barker ravenna@foodshare.net, no later than the 15th of the month. Photos © 2008 Laura Berman www.greenfusephotos.com
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