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The Complete Guide to Finding Local Food in Toronto - Green Ribbon
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The Complete Guide to Finding Local Food in Toronto. Follow me on Twitter here. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last several years, you’ve probably heard about the local food revolution. Food gurus, journalists and even ordinary people all over North America are moving away from mass supermarkets and heading to the local farmers’ market instead. Of course, some of these people are foodies who insist on purely organic meals, but why is everybody else jumping on the bandwagon? Thinking about...
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Natasha Basacchi: October 2013
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October 31, 2013. Designated Smoking Area vs No Smoking Area. October 23, 2013. BARRIE: SIDEWALK AND PATIO EXTENSIONS. The first time I ever saw something like this was in San Francisco. Intervention is something I didn't expect to see in the suburbs, but its so inspiring that it is. The pictures I've taken are only examples of a cut into parking spaces when restaurant/ pub patio spaces have been extended. October 22, 2013. Exhibition. I mentioned the exhibition here. Seen above. From only a few seed...
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Jacob Kearey-Moreland - Festival of Dangerous Ideas : Food For Thought Festival of Dangerous Ideas : Food For Thought
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Speakers & Music. Panel: Seed Is Sacred. Panel: Soil as an Intelligence. Kearey-Moreland grew up and grows on a farm near Orillia, Ontario and is a recent graduate of the University of Toronto, majoring in Sociology and Philosophy. Jacob. And a new Non-Profit called The Seed Library Commons which exists to promote literaseed and to create free public access seed collections inside public libraries, schools and other public spaces. He is currently engaged in a federal cooperative campaign to rally progres...
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Living on a Share –
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Living on a Share. I’ll trade you mine, if you trade me yours. When I received the exclusive invitation to the secret Bunz Trading Zone Facebook Group I thought it might just end up being newsfeed clutter. I was wrong. At first glance, it just looks like people are looking to trade clothes for tall cans and tokens, but then I realized that those posts were just from the last. 8220; I love this place so much! So of course I had to try to make a trade! Here’s what I posted:. So far I’ve traded a trun...
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Grow to Learn: November 2013
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Friday, 8 November 2013. Fall Photographs and How To Plant Garlic: WHCI and Elmbank Gardens. As the season came to an end, and we harvested the last of our edible crops, we found some special things in the gardens. Our first time trying to grow artichokes produced this lovely specimen! In October, we observed lots of ladybugs and wasps covering a few sunflower plants at the Elmbank Children's Garden. Is this an example of parasitism. Picked lots of tomatillos! Have you heard of the Toronto Seed Library.
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Food
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Living on a Share. Living on a share with NFFTT. I had been waiting patiently all winter for my chance to go on a pick with Not Far From The Tree (NFFTT). So when that first invitation to pick cherries within 10 minutes of my home landed in my inbox, I pounced. Not Far From The Tree is a Toronto-based organization that harvests fruit from trees around the city (with the owner’s permission, of course). A third of the pick goes to the homeowner, a third of the pick goes to the volunteers, and (. Thankfully...
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Contributors | Seeds and Threads
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Bija Devi is the seed keeper at the Navdanya Biodiversity Conservation Farm in Dehradun, India. She is an expert on Indian seed varieties and an advocate for seed freedom. Peggy Reents and Jo Jandai. Peggy and Jo are the founders of Pun Pun, a small organic farm located in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Pun Pun is also a learning centre for self-reliance and seed saving. Peggy and Jo live on the farm with their son and teach courses throughout the year on seed saving, farming and natural building. Jacob Kearey-Mo...
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Toronto Seed Library – Saving Our Seeds
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The role of community seed banks in maintaining seed diversity. London Freedom Seed Bank. November 23, 2015. November 23, 2015. The Toronto Seed Library. TSL) grew out of Occupy Gardens Toronto. Part of the International Occupy Movement. And aligns itself with the ethos of the movement, in particular, in making a stand against the corporatisation of the food system. The library was initiated in November 2012 by students from the University of Toronto. Kate Berger, founding member, TSL. At the University ...
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