TUG Networking Meeting April 2017
Next TUG Networking Meeting
Thursday, April 27 2:30-5:00 pm
Evergreen Brickworks
We'll hear from two enterprises:
The Growing Connection (www.thegrowingconnection.com) is working with
schools, community groups and businesses locally to introduce food production
to people who do not have access to traditional horticulture techniques nor to
the time to use them. It is also developing an international network of
practitioners.
Third Millennium Farming (www.thirdmillenniumfarming.com) is a young
enterprise that is specializing in cricket farming. Starting from a small
basement operation, it is in the process of expanding into a much larger
facility in an industrial zone of Mississauga.
Then we’ll have not one but two site tours:
- Evergreen’s gardens featuring Indigenous growing practices (for a preview, see Isaac Crosby’s Grower2Grower article).
- Ripple Farms’ new aquaponics unit (http://ripplefarms.ca/).
TUG and the Toronto Food Policy Council’s UA
Working Group will be asking the City to officially proclaim an Urban
Agriculture Day in mid-September. Share your thoughts on how we can
use this event to engage a wider audience and build support for UA.
Everyone is welcome!
Blakes Room, 2nd floor of the Centre for Green Cities building
550 Bayview Ave
info on the shuttle bus from Broadview Station: https://www.evergreen.ca/get-involved/evergreen-brick-works/visitor-info/getting-here/shuttle-bus/
Accessibility info: https://www.evergreen.ca/get-involved/evergreen-brick-works/visitor-info/accessibility/
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