The ability to plant a seed and harvest food from a seed is a true and fundamental value. We have moved farther and farther away from this as a daily activity the more urban our lives have become. Our children think that food comes from factories and stores. Why should they think any differently? Pull a carrot from the ground and the typical eight year old will think that you are playing a joke on them.

Growing food in our cities, right where we live, is something that we need to do. Not sometime in the future but right now, before we forget how or the land is put to "better" use by being paved over or built upon. Community gardening and urban agriculture are two ways in which FoodShare is attempting to re-establish this essential and intimate connection with the food we eat.

Click here for information on FoodShare's Community Garden Program.
or for Frequently Asked Questions about community gardening in Toronto.

Click here for FoodShare's backgrounder on Urban Agriculture.