Urban Agriculture Week

Nine days of celebrating urban-grown food and the people who grow it!

Grower2Grower

Sharing the knowledge of Toronto's experienced growers

Indicators project

Measuring the social, environmental, health and economic impacts of urban agriculture

Tour of Ryerson Urban Farm Rooftop Garden

TUG highlights exciting local UA projects through networking meetings and tours

Garden Sharing Network

A pilot project to support neighbourhood organizations matching gardeners with underused private space

Urban Agriculture Week

TUG wants to put the spotlight on urban-grown food and the people who grow it! Every year the City of Toronto declares 9 days in September as Urban Agriculture Week to celebrate the many ways that growing food in the city makes Toronto a greener and more vibrant place to live.

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Garden Sharing 

When people who want to grow food have difficulty finding space, matching gardeners and landholders with underused space can open up more room to grow. TUG worked with Greenest City, Access Alliance and The Stop Community Food Centre to create tools including questions to ask a landholder or gardener, site assessments and garden sharing agreements to support successful matches. A report also shares reflections on a one-year pilot project to develop a network of garden-sharing organizations. See the Garden Sharing page. 

Grower2Grower

Toronto has a wealth of growers who know everything from how to grow okra to increasing participation in a community garden to starting up an innovative local food business. Many of these people, coming from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, are well-known in their own neighbourhoods but not heard elsewhere in the city. TUG hopes to change that by featuring growers and what they know in videos, articles and photo essays. See the Grower2Grower page. 

Urban Agriculture Indicators project

If we are to make a strong case for investing more resources into urban agriculture and developing enabling policies, it's important to have reliable and compelling data that show the positive impacts UA can have. When Toronto Public Health heard from decision-makers that there was a lack of Toronto-specific data, they commissioned TUG to consult with local UA practitioners on developing indicators that would measure the social, economic, health and environmental benefits of growing food in the city. Click here for the full report (PDF).