Emmett Avenue Community Garden

05/10/2013

This is baby Peter, whose first trip out into the community at one week old was to the garden! At Emmett, the gardeners start young!!

05/07/2013

Our first clean-up day was fantastic! We had great fun going through some donated seed packets from Seeds Of Change. Hope to see everyone on Wednesday again ... If the rain holds off.

04/29/2013

FINALLY - Spring is definitely here! Garlic has pushed through beautifully, those curls will be on display pretty soon. Anyone up for a GARDEN CLEAN-UP this Wednesday? There's a lot of debris lying around that needs to be dealt with before the gardening fun can really begin. Hope to see you 4-8 pm on Wednesday!

04/26/2013

Join MPP Laura Albanese and members of the community at a public forum on Community Benefit Agreements and the construction of the Eglinton LRT this evening at 6pm.

A community benefit agreement or CBA is a contract negotiated between the community and a public or private developer that outlines the benefits the community will receive from the development in return for their support of the proposed project.

Mount Dennis Public Forum April 26 Posted by varoun | April 19, 2013COMMUNITY BENEFITSPUBLIC FORUMAPRIL 26 20131149 WESTON ROAD Church of Good ShepherdDOORS OPEN AT 6:00PMMajor public transit developments have gotten underway in Mount Dennis. Hundreds of millions of public dollars are being spent. T...

04/11/2013

PARKS PLAN 2013 - 2017 will go before the Parks & Environment Committee on April 22 - if interested you can submit your comments or get on the speaker's list through the City's website:

http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2013.PE20.1

You can read the full 83-page report at the link below. Took a quick look, the part on more engagement with the community looks encouraging! Let us know what you think ...

03/21/2013

Check this out - it's SEEDY SUNDAY this weekend 12:00 - 4:00 at Lawrence Heights Community Centre!! Starting to feel like it's Spring yet?

Seed exchange and community seed bank featuring heritage varieties Workshops on starting, caring for, and harvesting your garden.

03/19/2013

Spring is coming, despite the return of snow this week! Here's a great way to start off the 2013 gardening season ... Evergreen's workshop on cold frame gardening, we can learn how to garden earlier and garden longer each year!

03/11/2013

CAREER FAIR - GEORGETOWN SOUTH RAIL DEVELOPMENT
- construction & engineering jobs
- educational and pre-apprenticeship programs
- employment services

Thursday March 21 6:00-8:30 pm
COSTI 35 King Street, Weston

03/09/2013

Given all the bugs we had last summer, we def need to get us a whole bunch of bug-eating ladybugs this year! Also, love the raised beds in the pic below! Exactly what we need to make gardening easier for those that have mobility restrictions.

One thing I decided from the beginning when we started our garden was that I didn’t want to use any chemical pesticides. I’ve been very diligent about not using chemicals in the home so why would I use them in the garden? Especially on plants we grow to eat.

03/06/2013

SEEDY SATURDAYS!!! We all know this is a first sign of Spring! This Saturday at Evergreen Brick Works 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Kick-off the garden season with Seedy Saturday, an event which brings people together to buy, sell and trade local seeds including vegetables, herbs, flowers and native species.

02/15/2013

PUBLIC CONSULTATION on the future of Eglinton Avenue!

Tuesday, February 19
York Memorial Collegiate Institute
2690 Eglinton Ave W
(near Keele and Eglinton)

5:30-9:00 pm
Public presentation will start at 6:30 pm

Eglinton Connects is about planning for the future Eglinton Avenue, and how to best leverage investment in rapid transit for the benefit of our communities and our city.

01/17/2013

CITY OF TORONTO 2013 BUDGET - some good news showing strong support from many Councillors across the City for community programs, student nutrition programs, homelessness and housing supports, and also to exploring expanding free access to youth recreation. Please send a thank you to those Councillors who voted YES, and those Councillors who put forward the motions for discussion - including Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam; Councillor Joe Mihevc; Councillor Janet Davis; Councillor Pam McConnell; Councillor Josh Matlow. The link below provides in-depth information on what was voted upon and the results:

As you know from all the “Action Alerts” that you have been receiving lately, C2C has been organizing to get additional investment to community programs in the 2013 budget. The City Council met over the past day and a half to discuss this budget and make additional amendments to the budget. I am t...