Saturday July 21st at Yonge and Dundas Square

We’ll be spreading the word about our program, looking for space to grow next year, and selling Cultivate Toronto shirts and buttons.

Some of the other fun parts of the festival:

• over 100 green vendors
• live music including performances by Karl Wolf, Fefe Dobson, and Suzie McNeil
• kids zone
• bike tune up clinic

We hope to see you there!

Thank you Sweets from the Earth!

Our official Cultivate Toronto launch party was a resounding success.

A tremendous thank you to everyone who came out to participate in the event on Wednesday night at the CSI Annex building in Toronto. We had a great time celebrating in honour of our 2012 name change, and talking about our future plans for bring fresh, locally grown organic produce to more tables across the city.

Another GIANT thank you to our sponsor, Sweets from the Earth, for plying us with sweet treats all evening long.

We look forward to another great growing season of healthy harvests.

Come see what plans we have in store for the 2012 growing season and meet other supporters.

Join us on Wednesday, May 16th, from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm in the Basement of the CSI Annex (720 Bathurst Street).

RSVP required by Eventbrite

On April 23rd, the Cultivate Toronto team met with Susan Hay og Global News at one of our Wychwood gardens to chat about urban agriculture, our coming season and re-connecting communities with locally grown and organic produce.

Watch Chris and Elaine as they talk to Ms. Hay about growing with Cultivate Toronto.

Young Urban Farmers CSA is Changing Our Name! We’re Now Cultivating Toronto One Garden at a Time

Today marks the dawning of a new age…well, that might be a little dramatic, but, the Young Urban Farmers Community Shared Agriculture (YUF CSA) did make a big announcement today. We are changing our name!

We are making the change from YUF CSA to Cultivate Toronto because we feel it better represents our growing organization and vision. Cultivate Toronto (or, CultivateTO, as we have already affectionately abbreviated it), is the same team of passionate farmers, strategists, and business people – just with a further refined mandate for an organization that is growing as fast as our fresh fare. At our foundation, CultivateTO is still a CSA, transforming backyards in the Wychwood, Riverdale and Dovercourt areas into vegetable gardens. We are still helping neighbourhoods come together and learn more about sustainable urban farming and local, organic produce.

And so, our group that began as YUF CSA, recognized that our organization has out grown its youthful role as a CSA. Now heading into our third growing season, “CultivateTO” is also fostering a better understanding and appreciation of the benefits of growing urban gardens through workshops and tutorials on topics like canning and sustainable growing. The plan is to do more than just morph yards into fruitful gardens, but to transform the general thinking about how we grow, shop, and eat produce in an urban setting.

Of course, our original passion for healthy living, local organic produce and sustainable growing is still our primary mandate. But, under the new title of CultivateTO, we are driven to ignite a new renaissance in responsible urban living by bringing neighbours together to participate in giving a little, and getting a lot.

Cultivate Toronto looks forward to a successful year of continuing to “cultivating the way we approach healthy living.”