May 12th, 2012
Learn new tools to advance urban agriculture in your own community this August!
From August 15-18, 2012 Toronto’s first Urban Agriculture Summit will bring together a diversity of design professionals, community groups, social housing advocates, educators, planners, homeowners, urban growers and others for you to explore everything to do with urban agriculture.
Presented by FoodShare and Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, this summit is not something that should be missed this summer!
For more information please visit http://www.urbanagsummit.org/
May 12th, 2012
Are you interested in gardening but only have limited space at home? Join Hart House, Dig In! Campus Agriculture and the Toronto Green Community for a FREE hands-on workshop about everything you need to know about container gardening.
Topics covered will include: container types, materials needed, watering, soil type, fertilizers, transplanting and companion planting.
Location: Hart House Quad (enter from the wheelchair accessible entrance on the west side of the building), Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto (St. George campus).
Time: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. or Wednesday, May 23, 2012 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Spaces is limited. Please RSVP to campusagriculture@gmail.com to let them know which session you’ll be attending.
January 29th, 2012
Healthy, Affordable and Sustainable Cafe Opens on Campus!
“We are excited to announce that this Monday, January 30th, Harvest Noon Cafe will open its doors to the public. The crew behind this Co-operative venture is thrilled to offer a healthy, financially accessible, environmentally sustainable, and independent food option on campus.
Located on the sunny second floor of the Graduate Students’ Union at 16 Bancroft Avenue, the cafe offers a variety of tasty, homemade vegetarian and vegan menu options and a relaxed and inclusive space for folks to study or take a well deserved break.
The cafe will initially be open from 10:00am to 2:00pm, with plans to extend later in the semester. As the operation is starting out on entirely volunteer power, there are many opportunities for those who want to get involved – ranging from cooking to accounting!
Harvest Noon is a project of the Toronto Sustainable Food Co-operative, a campus-based organization initiated by volunteers and members of the student group Hot Yam! in the Fall of 2011. Those who want to know more or get involved are encouraged to stop by the cafe or send the group an email at volunteers@harvestnoon.com
January 11th, 2012
Dig In! Campus Agriculture Presents…
What You Need to Know to Grow!
Session 1: How to Start a Food GardenTuesday, January 17, 2012
2:00 – 4:00pm
South Dining Room, Hart House
This is the first of three sessions in our What You Need to Know to Grow winter event series. Sure it’s cold outside, the trees are bare and the grass is brown…
But what better way to beat the winter blues than to get excited about gardening?! Really though, seed starting can begin as early as February so there’s no time to waste! Let’s get growing!
Join us as we inform and entertain you with the hows, whens, whats and wheres of food gardening. Hear about how a number of the campus gardens got up and running and finish off by learning about the exciting world of community gardening – what it means, how to get involved and even how to go about starting one of your own!
We hope to see you there. Please RSVP to campusagriculture@gmail.com
October 21st, 2011
Sky Garden and the Food and Water Institute are pleased to offer an introductory workshop to coldframes and extending the season techniques.
Interested in learning how to have greens throughout the winter months? Come out and join us next Monday, October 24th at 5pm!
When? Monday, October 24 from 5pm – 6pm
Where? Sandford Flemming Building (10 King’s College Road) Room 1009
Why? Learn some of the basics of extending the growing season and see a couple coldframes in use on the U of T campus!
Space is limited! Please RSVP to urbanagriculturesociety@gmail.com.
July 3rd, 2011
A container gardening workshop will be held on July 7th from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the U of T’s Farmers Market (Willcocks Street and St. George Street).
We’ll have a table set up with demos displaying various types of containers, self-watering systems, soil types and mixes, and show simple ways that you can grow food at home.
Information and demos provided by Toronto Green Community (http://torontogreen.ca/), Sky Garden and Dig In! Campus Agriculture.
Hope to see you there!
July 3rd, 2011
Access Alliance is having a celebration to officially open their new Green Roof on July 12th!
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
-Green Roof tours and AccessPoint Hub tours
-A beautiful slideshow of the 2011 spring season
-Refreshments and freshly made garden recipes
-Herbal tea garden scavenger hunt
-Planting a seed
-Learning about Green Roofs
-Short speeches about the story of Access Point Green Roof
-Meeting Green Roof garden volunteers
Location: 3079 Danforth Ave.
For those interested, they have a beautiful teaching garden, herb garden, as well as native plants and a multi-cultural food garden.
Please RSVP to lmrosovsky@accessalliance.ca.
To view a poster about this event, please click here. Keep reading →
June 27th, 2011
All tours will begin at 5:00 p.m. in the main lobby of the Galbraith Building located at 35 St. George Street.
July 6th & 20th
August 10th & 24th
Sept. 7th & 21th
Oct. 12th & 26th
Don’t forget to RSVP at urbanagriculturesociety@gmail.com to reserve your spot.
June 27th, 2011
For those who would like to tour the Sky Garden, we’ll be holding scheduled tours where you’ll not only get the chance to tour our rooftop garden, but discussions will also be held on the garden’s automated drip irrigation system, the use of semi-hydroponics, and finally on the benefits & challenges of having a rooftop garden.
Our first tour will begin on Wednesday July 6 at 5 p.m. in the lobby of the Galbraith Building located at 35 St. George Street. Check the tour schedule, posted above, for other dates. Please RSVP at urbanagriculturesociety@gmail.com to reserve your spot.
May 9th, 2011
Work-Study Position: Urban Farming Laboratory Assistant
Number of Vacancies: 2
Position Description:
The Urban Farming Laboratory is a new initiative in the Department of Civil Engineering combining the SkyGarden (one of Toronto’s most productive green roofs, situated on top of the Galbraith Building), the Galbraith Garden (a redevelopment project designed to provide a naturalized outdoor lab, classroom, and study space as well as a home to a building-wide composting initiative), and the Aeroponics Project (an advanced pod designed to provide building occupants with fresh vegetables year round with a significantly reduced carbon footprint).
This summer we are planning expansion projects that will extend our growing season. This includes the building and design of cold frames, a solar dehydrator and an inflatable greenhouse for winter gardening. The work study student(s) will be involved in research of four-season growing as well as helping to source and gather materials. There is also potential to work with designers to plan the greenhouse, if the student is interested. We would also require help organizing and planning workshops to share our project knowledge with the university community.
We encourage students in any discipline with an interest in urban agriculture and design to apply. Engineering background is not required.
Hours of work available/week: 12 (flexible/negotiable)
How to apply:
Email: colin@civ.utoronto.ca
Colin Anderson, Communications and Student Programs Coordinator
Submit your resume and covering letter by Friday, May 13, 2011
**This is a work study position. Applicants must be eligible for the work study program. For eligibility information, see the U of T Career Center website: http://www.careers.utoronto.ca/jobsearch/workstudy.aspx?tr