Past Event: Love Songs for the lands & Our Farmers
Dufferin Grove Farmers' Market Toronto, ON A community singing event with Sing For Joy! Kids colouring and all-ages singing to show...
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What would you do if you owned 9,600 acres of Class One farmland bordering the GTA?
Harvest Moon Festival: Wendell Berry Film and Bake Oven Potato Bar, October 7th at 6 pm
“All caring whether for land or people hinges on affection. Affection is grounded in knowledge and familiarity” ~ Wendell Berry, poet....
The Star reports on "Harvest."
One of our guests, Shawn Micallef, published this story in the Toronto Star about his experience of the day. Enjoy! Toronto's Accidental...
This Very Real Something
Harvest was a beautiful day. It was warm, yet brisk, sunny, but not scorching. We got lucky as organizers, the weather always affects the...
Announcing "Harvest": A day on the Lands.
On October 15th, Harvest will be staged on the Transport Canada Lands, Pickering Lands. Our guests will be Toronto’s leading food and...
Earth-Worming
In 1970 my first love brought me, a city girl, to a house near Claremont on the border of the Pickering Lands. Here, rents were low and a...
The 3 layers of geology under the Pickering Lands
In this blog posting, I explore the geology under the Pickering Lands. Perhaps it’s not critical to know, but I like to be thorough in...
My first visit to the Pickering Lands
The aim of the Abundance GTA project is to help foster in Torontonians a “heartened” connection to the Pickering Lands. So, I asked...
Where are the Pickering Lands?
In my quest to get to know the Pickering Lands intimately, my first question was where are they? You may be wondering the same. I...
9,600 is a big number.
Especially when it comes to Class One agricultural land. 9600 is the number of acres of Class One agricultural land held in trust by the...
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