Posted in Field Trip, Guest Blogger, In Backyards on Mar 29th, 2013
When I first moved to Toronto three years ago, I found the city a little overwhelming. The bustling traffic, clanging streetcars, and rambunctious bar crowds of the College/Spadina intersection
Posted in Events, Field Trip on Mar 6th, 2013
I had the pleasure of attending the Sustainable Neigbourhoods Summit last week. Hosted at the Evergreen Brickworks by the Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation and Evergreen’s CityWorks project
Posted in At the Market, Field Trip on Sep 10th, 2012
Like Robin Newman, I have become a fruit tourist! Whenever I am travelling, I can’t help but seek out (fruit) trees and local food. So when Becky sent me a link about the oldest tree in Paris
Posted in Events, Field Trip, In the Kitchen on Jul 21st, 2012
Hot off the press: Not Far From The Tree is hosting the HarbourKIDS tent at the Hot & Spicy Food Festival this weekend! As part of the 15th anniversary celebrations of this sizzling summer festival, we’re bringing the wonders of local fruit to the Harbourfront Centre. This is an awesome chance for us to share [...]
Posted in Field Trip on Jun 14th, 2012
We’re setting up shop with a new office at 401 Richmond, sharing a beautiful space with several other food non-profits in the city. But how to move all of our materials across town? In true Not Far From The Tree style, we did it by cargo bike! Luckily, our new Community Engagement department was keen [...]
Posted in Field Trip on May 24th, 2012
Not Far From The Tree has been visiting high schools as of late. Marc and I spoke at three Earth Day assemblies (North Toronto Collegiate, Parkdale Collegiate, and Humberside) and I had the privilege of giving the keynote at the TDSB’s Youth Food Summit. I was amazed and inspired by what all of these high [...]
Posted in Field Trip, In Backyards on Apr 16th, 2012
When Robin Newman completed her work as Event Coordinator last year and decided to take off traveling, she was warned: You may become a fruit tourist! It’s a dangerous thing to put on your fruit goggles; once you put them on in your own city, you are all the more likely to see the whole [...]
Posted in Field Trip on Jul 7th, 2011
Not Far From The Tree’s Founder & Director Laura Reinsborough was presented with a Vital People Award at Vital Toronto 2011. Presented by the Toronto Community Foundation, the Vital People Awards were established “to support and recognize valued leaders who are making outstanding contributions working at not-for-profit organizations.” Laura has dedicated the funds from this [...]
Posted in Field Trip, Resources on May 16th, 2011
An artificial bee and wasp home helps promote pollinators in the garden. I signed up for an intensive, full-day workshop with landscape architect and specialist in environmental management, Brad Peterson, and his crew in Chatsworth, Ontario. Brad has been establishing his very own young forest garden, and I was there to witness its early stage [...]
Posted in Field Trip on Sep 30th, 2010
(Photo by Reena Newman.) Just outside the city an untouched orchard lay waiting to be plucked. Through a new program launched this July by the Ontario Association of Food Banks, called Community Harvest Ontario, volunteers from a food bank and myself helped fill a truckload of apples. Lieberman’s Chalet and Apple Farm in Eugenia, Ontario [...]
