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Hi:
In today’s newspaper there was an article about the need for more social space at York University. The intent was that social space would help reduce conflict.
I was think that since there is a lot of open land at York University student could develop a garden space like the one FoodCycles has at Downsview Park. That type of enterprise could help students work on a cooperative project as well as help feed struggling students and their families. The corporate environment at colleges and universities needs to change. Volunteer opportunities that appeal to students who don’t mind getting their hands dirty should be encouraged, particularly if they candirectly benefit from their efforts by consuming fresh healthy food and knowing where it came from. This could be a very sustainable project that could be duplicated at other urban colleges and unversities. A place like Ryerson University could have their garden on a roof.
I have been involved with the Central Toronto YMCA’s Roof Garden. It will be spectular when it is completed. It’s too bad they didn’t decide to grow fruits or vegetables. Nevertheless, it is a great example of a positive use of a large downtown Toronto roof.
I look forward to attending the Open House on September 12.
Keep up the good work.

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Seymore,

Wow, that’s a wonderful suggestion to follow up. Will definitely stick it in the task list! Feel free to suggest some recipes we should be sending out on all our business cards and information flyers too!

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Have you come across a website called Food-Hub (http://www.food-hub.org/). We once talked about how various CSAs could work with each other to help avoid having food travel excessive distances (food miles matter). Maybe something like food-hub could be set up where a CSA in Richmond Hill that has customers/members in Downsview gets the vegetables from FoodCycles and likewise a FoodCycles customer/member living in Thornhill would get its vegetables from the CSA in Richmondhill. So essentially what you may create is a kind of cooperative/exchange while still maintaining authonomy. Maybe with some more research and playing around with the idea with other CSAs in the region something equitable can be worked out. It would be a shame to have food travel extra miles for no reason. Under the conventional food distribution system we have too much food traveling too many miles.

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