UTSC Campus Garden Bloomed with Delicious Veggies

December 1, 2010

By: Tooba Shakeel, Stewardship Coordinator, Evergreen

UTSC Garden Celebration, (Photos: Tooba Shakeel)

University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) Garden saw a successful season of growth! On Sept 29, students and staff at UTSC celebrated the harvest by enjoying a delicious salad made from vegetables grown in the University Community Garden. Participants also enjoyed Gourd Bowling using butternut squash!

UTCS Community Garden, (Photos: Tooba Shakeel)

UTSC Garden was established in the spring of 2010 in partnership with the UTSC Sustainability Office and Evergreen. The aim was to provide students and community members a chance to practice gardening and grow vegetables. During the celebration, participants harvested pepper, zucchini, eggplant, onion, parsley, oregano, lemon grass, basil, rosemary, nasturtium and much more. Not only did everyone enjoy a delicious salad but participants also took plenty of vegetables home. The garden has been put to sleep for winter and we hope to have an even better growing season next year!

Click here for information on UTSC Sustainability Office projects and events.

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The Fruitful Project of 2011: Great Northern Way Community Orchard

November 24, 2010
Evergreen will be taking inspiration from the Union Street Urban Orchard, an innvoative urban orchard that ran in London, England, in 2010.

Pallets and Things at the Union Street Urban Orchard (Photo: Quite Peculiar on Flickr). Evergreen will be taking inspiration from this innovative and temporary orchard in London, England.

With a successful fall season behind us, Evergreen is busy working on crafting some new and exciting projects for 2011. One that we’re all particularly excited about is an urban orchard to be located in Vancouver’s False Creek Flats.

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Evergreen Needs Your Vote!

November 18, 2010

 

A young explorer. (Photo: Evergreen)

 

Evergreen’s Nature Playground is competing for the Aviva Community Fund and we need your help to succeed. The Nature Playground will provide the opportunity for children to connect with nature at Evergreen Brick Works in the best way possible: through food, play and hands-on learning.

The priority of the Nature Playground is first-hand experience and multi-sensory exploration with an edible landscape, supporting abundant opportunities for eating, cooking, and preserving fresh food. Various terrain and paths will snake through themed gardens and raised beds where plants will be a focus of study, seasonal celebrations and sensory delight.

The gardens in Nature’s Playground will feel like a miniature version of an urban farm and use innovative growing mediums and spaces – a greenhouse, vertical gardens, herb spirals, fruit and veggie hedges and fences will define the landscape.

Bringing together all the elements of Nature’s Playground and acting as a focal point of learning and experiencing is the outdoor bake oven and kitchen. Here, children will be offered an opportunity to learn baking and cooking techniques in a wood-fired brick oven—from baking bread, making pizza, pies, and pastries to all sorts of goods not usually associated with wood-fired ovens.

Help children connect with, play in and learn from nature by voting daily and telling your friends. Vote here: http://bit.ly/ebwKIDS

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Evergreen Brick Works Grand Opening Sept 25 & 26

September 16, 2010


This has been a busy week!

Evergreen’s Toronto staff have been unpacking in their new office in the Centre for Green Cities at Evergreen Brick Works, our new community environmental centre. We are celebrating our Grand Opening on September 25 and 26. If you are in town, drop by and take a peek at the transformation of the historic Don Valley Brick Works into a place where we can all explore how to live, work and play more sustainably.

Catch up the latest news on the Evergreen Brick Works blog: ebw.evergreeen.ca/blog

We’ll be back to regular posting on this blog very soon!

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Tree Yourself!

September 2, 2010

If you were a tree, what would you be?

Find out and help spread the word about bringing nature back to cities. Tree yourself (and your friends!) at evergreen.ca/treeme and post it to your profile pic! Visit us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/EvergreenCanada and let us know your name.

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Take BAC: And the Winner Is…

August 19, 2010

The team at Malvern was one of three winning TakeBAC neighbourhoods. (Photo: Sarah Midanik)

Toronto’s annual TakeBAC program wrapped up on Tuesday after six exciting weeks of hard work.  An unusually hot and humid summer made the program especially challenging this year, but the 200 youth involved were undeterred from their goal to create beautiful, vibrant garden spaces in communities around Toronto.

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School Ground Greening Grant Applications for 2010/2011 Now Available!

August 18, 2010

Students using their outdoor classroom at Cassandra PS, Toronto. (Photo: Cam Collyer)

With summer almost behind us (*sniff*) and September fast approaching, let’s look to the school year ahead. Have you been giving some thought to your school ground? Does it need a little green?

The Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds grant applications are now available online and will be accepted starting September 7. We are excited to say that we have been offering this program with Toyota’s support for over a decade! Since 2000, the Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds program has distributed $2.1 million to over 1,700 schools across Canada. In 2009/2010 alone, we awarded $260,000 in grants to 158 schools.

Join the hundreds of schools across Canada who have taken part in this program and start filling out your application today!

For more information on deadlines, eligibility and to access your application, click here.

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Summer’s Designer Shades

August 10, 2010

Beaver Lodge Fort provides a shady nook for little ones at Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto, ON. (Photo: Lyle Sadavoy)

Here in Learning Grounds, we work hard to get kids outside, and shade is a big part of keeping them safe while they’re there. Escaping to shade not only feels good, it is becoming increasingly important for children’s health. According to the Canadian Dermatology Association, people born in the 1990s have a 2 to 3 times higher lifetime risk of skin cancer than those born in the 1960′s. To put it a different way, if you’re currently between 11 and 20 years old, you have a 1 in 6 lifetime risk of  skin cancer, compared to those between 41 and 50 years  old, whose lifetime risk is 1 in 20.

The good news is that anyone can create shade at home and or on school grounds. Shade structures can range in price and complexity, from a straight-forward tarp or tent to a vine-covered pergola or gazebo. Read on for inspiration and links to our free shade resources.

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Posted by Anne from Learning Grounds

Transformation: From Open Pavilions to Bustling Market

August 3, 2010

Evergreen Brick Works Pavilions are transformed every weekend. (Photo 1: Rob Greatrix, Photo 2: Anfernee Chansamooth)

Early on Saturday mornings at Evergreen Brick Works, as the sun comes up, the pavilions are peaceful, the ponds are still and you can hear the birds singing.  It’s time for the Weekend Program team to arrive. Slowly at first and then in a rush, volunteers swing into action. Tables are set-up, signs are made, coffee is brewed and the farmers start to come.

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Design on Canadian School Grounds: John M. King School, Winnipeg, MB

June 28, 2010

John M. King - after. Photo: Sandra Buckberger

I love a good before-and-after shot. It’s so inspiring to see how good, creative, thoughtful design can transform a space. Take a look at how new design, natural elements, and careful planning completely changed the look and feel of the  Early Years Exploration Area at John M. King in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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Posted by Anne from Learning Grounds

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