Urban Greening Manual: How to Put Nature into Our Neighbourhoods
in our families, our neighbourhoods, and our society
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in our families, our neighbourhoods, and our society
EAT IT
GROW IT
SHARE IT
• Taste 10 fruits and vegetables every day• Eat local, organic and fair trade food• Share sit-down home cooked meals
• Know where your food comes from• Grow food in your community• Don’t truck it in or out--compost!
• Ensure everybody can afford good food• Invest in our children and their nutrition• Sustain our farmers and rural communities
PUT FOOD FIRST
PUT FOOD FIRST
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FoodShare’s Programs
Focus on Food Youth Employment Training
Field To Table Catering, Toronto Kitchen Incubator Community Kitchens & Cooking Training
FoodLink Hotline
The Good Food Box
Urban Agriculture & Community Gardening
Student Nutrition:Salad Bars in Schools & Field to Table Schools
Healthy Babies Eat Home Cooked Food
Food Justice Advocacy
Community Food Animators’ Fresh Produce Markets
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FoodShare and Brazil History:
1980-1997-- Sao Paulo-Toronto twining1991 -- Rod MacRae and Jack Lee visit Sao Paulo -- view Sacalo Markets1991 -- Mary Lou Morgan, Ursula Lipski write Field to Table Feasibility Study having read the Brazil study1993 -- Herbert De Souza -- Movement Against Hunger and For Life1997 -- Debbie Field invited to observe Conference of the America’s in Belo Horizante2000 -- Cecilia Rocha starts writing about Brazil2003 -- Ryerson course -- Zahra Parvinian and Bridget King visit Belo Horizante2004 -- Debbie Field invited as an observer of the Second National Conference on Food and Nutritional Security
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Ryerson Trip 2004
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A Tale of Two Cities:
Toronto and Belo Horizonte
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1. Locally Subsidized Fresh Produce Programs
Sacolao Markets in Belo Horizonte
Good Food Box in Toronto
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1/3 the population buys their food atSacalo Markets situated in low income neighbourhhods
Markets only sell freshfruit, vegetables, grains and beans -- the healthy buildingblocks of life
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The Good Food Box:
an innovative food distribution solution
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Mondays and Tuesdays Field to Table Centre’s warehouse is busy receiving produce--directly from farmers (in season) or from the Ontario Food Terminal (in the winter months).
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Every Tuesday a small army of volunteers gathers to pack hundreds of Good Food Boxes
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< The large organic Good Food - week of May 30, 2006
The large conventional Good Food - week of May 30, 2006
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Over 4000 boxes are delivered each month to over 180volunteer-run drop off sites throughout Toronto
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Community Food AnimatorsFresh Produce MarketsWeekly fresh produce market stands in underserved communities across Toronto
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2. Farmer’s Markets
Belo HorizonteToronto
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3. School Meals
Belo Horizonte
Toronto
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Field to Table SchoolsWhere kids can learn all about food - from farming and gardening, to cooking, composting, distribution and healthy eating!
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Community Partners for
StudentNutrition
Advocating for healthy, nutritious food in schools and available to all of our children
Helping school communities to start programs of their own
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The Salad Bars in Schools project
When given a choice, children do choose healthy food.
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4. School and Community Gardens
Belo HorizonteToronto
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CommunityGardensgrowcommunitiesas well as food
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Urban Agriculture:Growing Healthy Food in the City
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The Sunshine Garden
Our 6,000 sq. ft. urban market gardenIn partnership with the Centre for Addiction and
Mental Health
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BeekeepingOur own brand of honey from our own hives
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Composting: hundreds of kilograms of
vegetable waste are composted every week at
Field To Table Centre
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5. Popular Restaurants and Catering
Restaurante Popular de Belo Horizonte
Low-Cost Meals ($1 or less),Toronto
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Field To Table Catering CompanyFresh, healthy and delicious food formeetings, parties, special events…any time you want good food !
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A fully equipped and Health Department certified commercial kitchen to grow your small business
Toronto Kitchen Incubator
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Focus On Food:Youth Training & Employment Program
Learning and working
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6. Food Information & Referral
Pricing - Basic Monthly Ration, Belo Horizonte
FoodLink Hotline,Toronto
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Advocating for healthy and affordable food …
for everyone
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7. Food Policy Inside Local Government
Municipal Secretariat of Supplies, Belo Horizonte
Toronto Food Policy Council
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Field To Table Festival:An annual event to raise awareness about food security issues…from field to table
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The world’s longest salad bar at Nathan Phillips Square
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How can you get involved?
Many corporations participate in the United Way’s Days of Caring. Spend a fun day at Field to Table Centre and know that you are helping at the same time.
Volunteer, as an individual or with a group.
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Similarities between Brazilian and Toronto Food Security Models:
• Not just any food -- focus on healthy food;
•Great concern about obesity and diet related illnesses;
•Interest in slow food, food culture;•Focus on home cooking;
•Looking for structural change; •Open-air markets universal and don’t’
have means test;•As concerned about agrarian sustainability as city hunger;
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Working with communities to improve
access to affordable, healthy food
- from Field to Table