One of the brighter moments in this week’s epic city council meeting: the City renewed its commitment to a local food procurement policy—one which tries, where possible, to increase the percentage of Ontario produce that is used by City-run food services. (Examples include the meals provided in daycares and nursing homes.) Most of that food [...]

Jane’s Walk guide Lorraine Johnson discussing the hidden-in-plain-sight world of city farming. Photo by Mike Straitton. The sky was a deep shade of doom-and-gloom as the crowd gathered at the gates of Trinity Bellwoods Park Sunday morning, prepped for the forecast monsoon with rubber boots, rain jackets, and printed umbrellas in tow. Luckily, no Arc [...]

Laura Reinsborough of Not Far From The Tree. Waste not, want not—so the old saying goes. Taking the adage very much to heart is a fledgling non-profit and its several hundred volunteers, who have been plumbing our city for hitherto forgotten bounty for the past couple of years. The organization is called Not Far From [...]

A fresh crab apple from Cedarvale Ravine. Photo by Ayngelina Brogan/Torontoist. Torontonians seeking fresh seasonal fruit in the city tend to head to neighbourhood farmers markets or pray that their local grocery store has something other than produce shipped in from faraway locales. But lurking within parks and residential neighbourhood is a wide variety of [...]