The Food Flow project with the West End Food Co-op held a thoroughly successful food canning workshop for community agencies this month. We roasted up a boatload of tomatoes, made them into sauce, produced tomato stock on the side and discussed the Food Flow Kitchen plans, all in three hours! We had participants from Houselink, Scott Mission, Sketch, and the … Read More
Ride4RealFood 2014: September 14
PARC and West End Food Co-op are organizing its fourth annual Ride4RealFood campaign! Ride4RealFood is about raising money for better food security in the city. Raised funds will contribute to WEFC and PARC’s Co-op Cred program, a program that makes healthy foods more accessible to low-income people. This year the Ride4RealFood is on September 14 Sunday. Save the date! Starting … Read More
Community Freezer + Meat Bulk Purchasing
Food Flow is exploring an urban community freezer for meat. The project would provide the infrastructure to pool the resources of local social service agencies for bulk purchases of meat at volume discounts. The meat would be kept in freezer storage at a distributor or a large agency until delivery or access by the member agencies. As a part of … Read More
The Food Flow Kitchen awarded grant from enp-TO & TEF
Developing the Food Flow Kitchen – a social enterprise that provides commercial food processing services for community agencies and other food-based social enterprises – is one of the key recommendations from the Food Flow research. The Food Flow team has been awarded the grant from enp-TO and Toronto Enterprise Fund to conduct a business plan for the Food Flow Kitchen! … Read More
Calling all community chefs! Food processing workshop on July 10th
n July 10th (Thursday), the Food Flow project is organizing a workshop for community agencies – food-related staff and volunteers – on food processing and canning! The workshop is led by the West End Food Co-op. The session will include basic processing practices as well as exchanges of ideas, plans and solutions for room temperature storage of donations and surplus … Read More
Co-op Cred Program featured in “Food Fighters” documentary
Co-op Cred Program is featured in a documentary “Food Fighters”! The documentary introduces various food security initiatives in Toronto. ___________________________________________ Date: Jun 26 (Thursday) Time: 6:30pm Location: Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (506 Bloor Street West) Details can be found here. ___________________________________________
A Moving Experience: Mobile food processing
Coming to your neighbourhood, canning at your doorstep…the Food Flow Kitchen might be a mobile food processing kitchen. The Food Flow Kitchen is a social enterprise that will provide commercial scale processing for community agencies; it will increase access to affordably priced processed goods like canned tomatoes, provide new access to markets for farm seconds, and create stepping stone training … Read More
PNLT is officially incorporated!
We have been informed that our incorporation application has been approved. That is, Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust is officially incorporated as a non-profit organization! Let’s build on this momentum to develop a strong community land trust together in Parkdale! Our next step is to acquire a charitable status. Stay connected with us via our newsletter. Thank you very much for … Read More
PNLT at the national CLT conference in Cleveland
Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust (PNLT) attended the US National CLT conference in last April. The conference is annually held and organized by the US Community Land Trust Network. This year, the conference was held in Cleveland, OH. It convened hundreds of CLT practitioners, researchers, and groups from elsewhere – mainly from US but also from Europe and Canada! – to … Read More
More community dialgoues needed on land use!
Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust had an information table at the Parkdale BIA’s Spring Into Parkdale event on April 26. Despite the end of April, it was rather a cold and windy day, but many people stopped by at our table to learn about PNLT! We had lots of great conversations about land use in Parkdale. Many of people who stopped … Read More