Summer is in full swing and community gardens across the country are bursting with fresh produce. The Emmett Avenue Community Garden in Eglinton Flats Park is a unique green space where community members from the Weston-Mount Dennis community join together to grow, learn and share the fruits (and vegetables!) of their labour.
Gardeners getting their hands in the dirt. (Photo Credit: Aimee Carson)
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Posted by Laura from Communications
Find natural sweets on our edible plant walk. (Photo: Evergreen)
Explore your local park with Evergreen and the City of Mississauga in an Edible Plant Walk tomorrow, Thursday, August 12. For more information visit our online calendar. Sign up by contacting Emily Adam, eadam@evergreen.ca.
Many native plants provide edible and medicinal benefits and can be a beautiful addition to any garden or greening project. Native plants that bear fruit also provide wonderful habitat and food for birds, pollinators and small mammals.
Help create urban green corridors, wildlife habitat and beautify your city with native plants. Visit our Native Plant Database to find native, edible plants that will thrive in your garden!
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Sharon browsing at the Evergreen Brick Works Farmers' Market (Photo: Evergreen)
Sharon Brown started off at Evergreen Brick Works this spring volunteering at Doors Open and hasn’t stopped since. Although not a morning person at heart, Sharon now looks forward to sunrise on Saturday mornings, when she can be a Weekend Program Assistant and help with set-up, greeting visitors, waste education and even traffic.
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Despite being busy parents of children who attend Simon Fraser Elementary School, Lori Weidenhammer, Julie Sawatsky and Michelle Weeks still find time to green their city. The school has a garden plot at the Vancouver City Hall Community Garden, and these women are using the space to connect children, parents and teachers with their environment.
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Beautiful mural on Ben Nobleman Park Community Orchard's tool shed (Photo: Evergreen)
Picture a fruit orchard, with its neat little rows of pear, plum and cherry trees leafing out in the spring. Imagine pollinators buzzing in and around the blossoms while birds seek refuge on a branch. Now picture this orchard next to the busy intersection of Eglinton West and Allen Road, across from the TTC station.
Believe it or not, this is not mere fantasy. The new fruit trees planted by Ben Nobleman Park Community Orchard are taking root as Toronto’s newest urban orchard and are cultivating a new way of looking at our green spaces. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hand-crafted iron spikes for historic gardens (photo: Rebekka Hutton)
It’s not often we have to call on the services of a black smith to help launch a food garden, but when it’s the kind of garden that would have been around in the 1820s to feed officers stationed at Fort York, it’s hard to image how it would be possible without one.
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Our new oyster mushrooms. (Photo: Rebekka Hutton)
Growing food in an apartment or small space isn’t always easy—especially without an outdoor deck or balcony. Here at our downtown Toronto office, we’re growing delicious oyster mushrooms on the top of our fridge, and they’ve just started to fruit after only two weeks.
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On Wednesday, February 10 the Youth Challenge International (YCI) is presenting “The Ties that Bind,” an event planned to bring awareness to food security and hunger issues globally and locally. The event will feature a number of guest speakers (including staff from Evergreen), live music, refreshments and raffle prizes.
Come join us and other organizations as we share our experiences in addressing issues of hunger and poverty through our work in Urban Agriculture and Community Food Programs.
Evergreen’s Aimee Carson and Becky Idems will introduce our spectrum of programs and focus on our work as it relates to food security, community development as well as programs for youth.
This should be a great evening and also a great opportunity for sharing and learning. To find out more click here.
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Posted by Colin from Common Grounds
The challenge: balance farming with conservation. (Photo: Erin Elliott)
Happy New Year! The blog is back after a holiday break, and today we bring you some thoughts on Ontario’s Greenbelt, from Geoff Cape, Evergreen’s executive director:
After eating too much over the Christmas holiday I am looking to the new year, thinking about food, and recalling a recent article by Jessica Leeder, published in the Globe and Mail on Tuesday, December 22, 2009: Farmers Fleeing Ontario’s Greenbelt. Her article explored the challenges we face in balancing environmental conservation and farmland on the Greenbelt. The challenge is real.
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Jenn and Aimee - butter-makers in action. (Photo: Melissa Yu)
This week we threw a party to give thanks to more than 70 volunteers from across the GTA.
Part of the festivities included a workshop on making butter, which I led along with Aimee, Evergreen’s community food program co-ordinator. Everyone who participated got to take home the fruits of their labour in jars donated by Bernardin for the event.
Follow the recipe below for a deliciously homemade gift idea, or make and serve as a special touch to your holiday dinner party.
Happy butter making!
Ingredients
1 cup of whipping cream
1 tsp of rosemary, thyme or your favourite seasoning (optional)
Directions
1. Pour one cup of cream into a container that seals.
2. Shake vigorously for 15 to 20 minutes. It helps to have a partner to share the shaking!
3. Once you have a solid ball, drain off the buttermilk and rinse the ball under cold water.
4. For a unique flavoured butter, mix in a teaspoon of your favourite seasoning.
5. Serve!
The end result (Photo: Michelle Scrivener)
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