Links

Food Security Links

• Toronto Food Policy Council
• FoodNet Ontario
• Ryerson Centre for Studies in Food Security
• Food Banks Canada
• FoodShare
• FoodShare's online Learning Centre
• Sustain Ontario - The Alliance for Healthy Food and Farming
• Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy
• World Hunger Year
• Quebec Collective Kitchen Association - Regroupment des Cuisines Collectives du Quebec - some pretty wonderful things happening around community kitchens in Quebec
• Daily Bread Food Bank
• Second Harvest
• North York Harvest Food Bank
• Ontario Association of Food Banks

Poverty Reduction

• Income Security Advocacy Centre
• 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction
• Campaign 2000

National Food Security Programs

• Child Hunger Education Program
• Farm City Farm Folk
• Santropol Roulant

US Food Security

• Community Food Security Coalition - US national food security organization
• Food Project
• Hartford Food System
• Austin Sustainable Food Centre
• NYC Just Food

Housing Issues

• Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations
• Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario
• Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
• Pay The Rent AND Feed The Kids
• Ontario Tenants Toronto Tenants - housing and tenant rights information

Neighbourhood Groups

• Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood Centre
• Community Action Resource Centre
• Dufferin Grove Park

Composting

• FoodCycles
• The Composting Council of Canada / Le Conseil canadien du compostage
• How to Make Compost, a Composting Guide - instructions on how to compost, which materials to use, and how to deal with common composting problems
• City of Toronto Compost
• Another great composting link, courtesy of Brittany from Cleary County Middle School

Gardening with kids

• Green Thumbs Growing Kids
• KinderGARDEN - An introduction to the many ways children can interact with plants and the outdoors - Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University
• Green Teacher - information about a magazine by and for educators to enhance environmental and global education across the curriculum at all grade levels
• Canadian Gardening Magazine - check out their Gardening with Kids page

General Gardening and Urban Agriculture Sites

• Metro Ag Alliance for Urban Agriculture
• City Farmer - from Vancouver - Canada 's Office of Urban Agriculture
• American Community Garden Association

Regional Gardening and Urban Agriculture Sites

• Afri-Can Food Basket
• Evergreen
• Perth-Dupont Community Garden
• Hillcrest Park Community Garden - this garden is just down the street from our Earlscourt site and was started by two of our volunteers
• Toronto Community Garden Network 
• City of Toronto Community Garden - Parks and Recreation Dept
• Plant A Row Grow A Row
• You Grow Girl
• Urban Harvest
• ForFarmers.com - ForFarmers.com is a marketplace for buying and selling various breeds of garden, nursery, landscape, fruits, horticulture, flowers, plants, seeds, crops, vegetables. Also provides info on agricultural jobs and other services
   

Getting Started

• ICanGarden.com - a one-stop source for Canadian gardeners. Find out where to get supplies in your area. Includes gardening topics and discussions
• The Gardening Launch Pad - Looking for a place to start? The webmaster at this site has done a fantastic job of categorizing links to help you navigate this complex site. Most links are content instead of commercial so look here first for gardening information
• GardenGuides - rich in information and advice
• National Gardening Association - another fine resource site