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• New Board members elected at AGM August 18, 2010
  Watch this space for minutes/photos from FoodCycles First Ever AGM! Meantime, check out saveourprisonfarms.ca for the latest news about the struggle to keep the prison farms operating. And check out http://www.growingpowerfarmconference.org/ for information on the upcoming Sept. 10-12 conference in Milwaukee. Breakout sessions and workshops are organized the […]
• FoodCycles First 2010 On-Farm Market Tomorrow July 9, 2010
  You will taste fresh local natural food with no chemicals right in the city at FoodCycles first on-farm market at Downsview Park (http://bit.ly/1GYyWQ) from 10 am-3 pm with tours at 11 am and 1 pm. FoodCycles First 2010 On-Farm Market Tomorrow is a post from: FoodCycles […]
• FoodCycles Annual General Meeting 2010 July 5, 2010
  Calling all members and friends to the very first FoodCycles AGM! All are welcome and the event itself is free to attend, however only members can vote. You can purchase a membership anytime from now until the day of (click here, $25 lasts for the year, until end of Dec).FoodCycles Annual General Meeting 2010 is a post from: FoodCycles […]
• Job: Community Garden Coordinator (f/t permanent) June 23, 2010
  The Stop Community Food Centre uses food and food access as a tool for community development in the Davenport West and Wychwood Heights neighbourhoods of Toronto. The Community Garden Coordinator works as a member of the urban agriculture team to engage community members to participate in community gardening in order to improve participants’ access to health […]
• How the Toronto “Buzz” Is On the Rise May 23, 2010
  Apparently beekeeping is taking off in Toronto with an insane level of "buzz". In fact, Greg Thomson has been seeing his beekeeping supplies sales going up...How the Toronto “Buzz” Is On the Rise is a post from: FoodCycles […]
• How Cow Poop Could Power Your Internet May 23, 2010
  At a recent energy sustainability conference, Hewlett Packard (HP) presented a paper about how cow poop could be used to power the sort of data centres that big companies like Google or Internet service providers depend on. Those kind of centres are some big bedrocks of the Internet.How Cow Poop Could Power Your Internet is a post from: FoodCycles […]
• Is City Farming Here to Stay? Good Question. May 21, 2010
  City farming is really getting into the consciousness and it's hugely different from the "back to the land" movement of the 60s and 70s. Just as Sunday Harrison of Green Thumbs Growing Kids once said to me, "Farming alone is the stupidest thing you can do." It's isolating and human beings want to be a part of something bigger -- […]
• Eater’s Manifesto Official Book of a University May 11, 2010
  University of Wisconsin-Madison has been giving a copy of Pollan's "Food" book to all incoming students. Its definitely sparked debate and even riled up some farmers - particularly conventional ones as well as raising a lot of thorny issues that need to be discussed. UW Madison has even encouraged professors to use it their courses whoever the […]
• Agora and Beet in CONTACT Photo Festival 2010 May 2, 2010
  Discover some remarkable photography this May at Agora Cafe and Beet Organic Cafe -- both of whom are part of Toronto's biggest neighbourhood Contact Photography Festival in the Junction. You can go and enjoy the exhibits anytime at Agora or the Beet during normal business hours.Agora and Beet in CONTACT Photo Festival 2010 is a post from: FoodCycles […]
• FoodCycles Makes Top 10 in Green Innovation Awards May 2, 2010
  FoodCycles was one of the top 10 finalists out of 127 submissions for Toronto's first Green Innovation Awards. Though FoodCycles didn't win the award the point of getting the idea of growing tubes out there was just loads of exciting fun. FoodCycles Makes Top 10 in Green Innovation Awards is a post from: FoodCycles […]