EAT (Photo via USDV)
Louis Fliss, one of our volunteers was involved in establishing the new Eat.Bike.Walk program at Evergreen Brick Works! FoodCycles congratulates him and his team for bringing together food and exercise into that neighbourhood. We definitely need more of that in the city!
Evergreen News – November 2009: “Evergreen and The Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion have partnered to increase access to biking, walking, and food programs at Evergreen Brick Works in 2010.
BIKE (Photo via Evergreen)
Evergreen, the City of Toronto, Toronto Cyclists Union, The Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors, Flemingdon Health Centre and the St. James Town Youth Council are among 17 local community groups that will be working together to get hundreds of children and youth active in bike safety and recreation, food growing and cooking, ravine hikes and more.”
WALK (Photo via Mark Fox)
RESOURCES
Australia is really leading the way on this sort of thing. Maybe Toronto can take the lead here in Canada! Most programs usually forget the food…
Jamie Oliver – Eat to Save Your Life
Planning for Bicycling and Walking
As walking and biking to school decrease, physical activity for youth down
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