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The Toronto Green Community has helped to create three community gardens within the City of Toronto. The three community gardens are the:
The Eglinton Park Heritage Community Garden and Naturalization Site (at North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, 200 Eglinton Avenue West) is a dream brought to life by the joint organizing efforts of Seeds of Diversity Canada and TGC, in partnership with City of Toronto Parks. It is a delightful garden thriving with heritage flowers and vegetables, as well as native plants. For urban dwellers, it is a place to garden, learn, share and appreciate nature in the city.
The harvest is shared with the community centre's seniors lunch and learn program, and with Plant a Row Grow a Row (foodbank). Garden tours and garden workshops on organic gardening, heritage seeds, composting, trellis building, insects and various other topics are held throughout the summer. The garden has fostered a wonderful sense of community in the park and, once perceived as a threat by local dog owners, has turned out according to a former doubter to be "nothing but a delight". Garden Workbees take place every Thursday evening from 5-8 pm and give city dwellers an opportunity to meet their community and learn innovative ways to grow food in the city.
Visit the TGC Garden blog at http://tgcgarden.wordpress.com/ to stay up to date on garden activities and learn more about food security and growing food in Toronto.
Champlain Place is a Toronto Community housing building where we have partnered with the management and the nearby Seniors centre to create intergenerational programming where the youth from the building and the seniors from the seniors centre come together to garden ecologically. We have created a butterfly and a peace garden and in the summer we run a weekly youth program.
Canadian Film Centre: Through a partnership with the Canadian Film Centre, we have created a butterfly garden and tended the gardens on the 21acre former property of famous horse breeder, E.P. Taylor. We are looking at a more long term ecological plan for the property and bringing the gardens back to their former glory.
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