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LEARN2 -Food security, Toronto Canada
The amount of community gardens in Toronto are growing at a quick pace, the reason for this are various: community safety and development, food sustainability, income supplement for groceries and the green movement. Right now somebody can go into Christie Pits Park downtown Toronto and see 30 plots 4' by 8' in rows like a graveyard. Also because there was so much demand last year at Christie Pits Park for garden plots, people started to use the fringe areas around the outside of the fence near the borders of the community garden to 'guerrilla garden' their own vegetables. The Christie Pits Garden group provides space for people without their own land to grow food (apartment or condos), and also for local non-profits like Sistering (a woman's shelter), Food Not Bombs (Green Anarchists) and the YMCA.
One of the biggest setbacks to gardening in the city is soil quality. Many people don't understand that even if they have little light, they can grow vegetables in their back yard with the right type of soil. Manure and fungus are crucial to getting the correct bed of nutrients in soil, and there is a new form of research in soil rehabilitation called 'remediation' by using fungus or other plants to suck up the toxins from petroleum or chemical infected soil. Paul Stamets is known as a guru in this field of fungus research and here is a lecture where he describes some really profound findings about fungus' role in old growth forest.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_...
With the help of people like Stamet's research and some ingenuity, perhaps guerrilla gardeners could reclaim more than fringe areas around community gardens. Instead we can use space beside train tracks, industrial landfills or abandoned properties to grow our food. Somebody once said that if there was a food shortage tomorrow, any unclaimed land would be turned into gardens. Cuba did this during their early embargo years.
Why not begin growing on unclaimed land before we really need to? Seeds are cheap or free if we learn how to save them....
One of the biggest setbacks to gardening in the city is soil quality. Many people don't understand that even if they have little light, they can grow vegetables in their back yard with the right type of soil. Manure and fungus are crucial to getting the correct bed of nutrients in soil, and there is a new form of research in soil rehabilitation called 'remediation' by using fungus or other plants to suck up the toxins from petroleum or chemical infected soil. Paul Stamets is known as a guru in this field of fungus research and here is a lecture where he describes some really profound findings about fungus' role in old growth forest.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_...
With the help of people like Stamet's research and some ingenuity, perhaps guerrilla gardeners could reclaim more than fringe areas around community gardens. Instead we can use space beside train tracks, industrial landfills or abandoned properties to grow our food. Somebody once said that if there was a food shortage tomorrow, any unclaimed land would be turned into gardens. Cuba did this during their early embargo years.
Why not begin growing on unclaimed land before we really need to? Seeds are cheap or free if we learn how to save them....
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Comment by Mita Williams on March 15, 2010 at 6:36pm
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Thanks for sharing this and welcome to the network, Luke!
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Comment by Sylvain Ratelle on March 22, 2010 at 10:51pm
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Luke, I support that way vision, I lived in Toronto the last 2 years, and yes, there are a lot of vegetation for a city that populated, I will follow your blog for more evidences, When you get a minute, please try to have a look at mine, and don't hesitate to comment and support, talk to you soon, regards
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