The mushrooms are up! Students from the IBM Excite Camp in 2017 planted King Stropharia beds and the first mushrooms…
Round 2 of Spring Volunteer Days
Despite the risk of rain and the fact that there were only 3 of us, progress continues! We convened at…
Volunteer Day at the Redbarn Food Forest
The grape arbour went up this morning, prior to the rain. Helpful volunteers Nick and Jeff from Algonquin College, and…
Sign, Sign Everywhere a Sign! Help!
This Saturday, May 19th, we are having a “work party” at the red barn food forest (a.k.a. the Just Food…
Bumblebees
The bumblebees are all over the haskap flowers in the food forest. You can hear the bush buzzing even if…
Food Forest Wild Life
Our food forest has many mice, voles and other small animals who find food and homes in the hugelkulture mounds,…
Generous Food Forest Contributors
We are truly lucky to have so many volunteers helping out at these new food forests in the City of…
Localizing Food Systems and Food Forestry
This is a descriptive documentary about the importance of localizing food systems and how a food forest is an environmentally…
October Food Forest Planting Days
We recently completed a weekend of activities at the Just Food Community Food Forest in Blackburn Hamlet. We had a…
Food Forests are Not Just for Food!
There are many other reasons to plant food forests beyond food production, some of them are called out in this…
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