Foodprint Toronto is this Saturday
Jul 29th, 2010 by Not Far From The Tree
Not Far From The Tree is getting pretty excited about participating in the upcoming Foodprint conference this Saturday July 31st.
Never heard of the Foodprint Project before…?
“Foodprint Toronto is the second in a series of international conversations about food and the city. With the Toronto Board of Health having just formally adopted a new city-wide food strategy, the timing is perfect for a truly cross-disciplinary discussion that explores the past, present, and future of food and the city. From the fight for street food to the transportation infrastructure of the Ontario Food Terminal, and from the evolution of school meals to the challenge of scaling up urban agriculture, panelists will explore the forces that shape Toronto’s food and speculate on how to feed Toronto in the future.”
Representing Not Far From The Tree, Program Coordinator Laurel Atkinson will be a panelist alongside Darren O’Donnell, Mark Fram, and Chris Hardwicke. Delectably entitled “Culinary Cartography”, this panel’s discussion will center on the question, what can we learn when we map Toronto using food as the metric?
Those of us who have picked fruit with Not Far From The Tree have already made changes to our mental maps, consciously or subconsciously. Those who have gleaned know that something magical changes in the way you see your urban streetscape when you start harvesting Toronto’s fruit. It’s as if our internal GPS systems have suddenly downloaded a new fruit tree-finding app. We begin to notice sidewalks stained with mulberries, or littered with cherry pits. Our curiosity forces us to peer into curb-side yard waste bags and take a second glance down alleyways. We are always looking up, down, and sideways – usually without even thinking about it. A gleaner’s city is the urban orchard.
It would be wonderful if you could join us at Foodprint Toronto this Sunday from 12:30 – 5:00pm at the Artscape Wychwood Barns – either to join in our Culinary Cartography discussion, or to attend any number of the other special panels.
