Food Up Front

Do you want to grow some healthy produce? Food Up Front has seeds for you!

Do you want to grow some healthy produce? Food Up Front has seeds for you!

Food Up Front now has its own website at foodupfront.ca

Thanks to our group of fantastic volunteers, Food Up Front has delivered more than 3,500 seedling packages across the GTA, helping to start new gardens all over the City.

Food Up Front will continue to provide seeds, and now will also be providing education to help new gardeners grow successfully as well as educate novice and experienced gardeners on seed saving. Saving seeds is an essential resilience and sustainability skill, so please be in touch if you’re interested in expanding your gardening or seed saving skills.

If you have a front yard with a tree in it, please be careful not to damage or smother the tree’s roots while creating any new garden beds!

WHO ARE WE?

Food Up Front is a movement started by Transition Toronto to help you gather your community around local food. Growing local food is one piece of the puzzle in solving our climate crisis. It builds community resiliency by fostering a culture of sharing while reducing dependency on international agribusiness, it reduces the need for fossil fuel intensive farming practices while eliminating food mile emissions, and it helps sequester carbon through hands-on soil stewardship. Overall though, the most compelling benefit is that connecting with home-grown food improves the quality of our lives.

Seeds for Food Up Front

have been generously supplied by:

Toronto Seed Library

Seedy Saturdays in the GTA

Mark’s Choice

Friends of Allan Gardens

Compost Council of Canada - Plant, Grow, Share a Row

Skuta Pumpkin Seeds

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