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Building Roots
Launched successful discussion on food and development in 2013, with Daniels
Corporation, Heart & Stroke Foundation
Food expert consulting team has established food projects with Lanterra
Developments, ERA Architects, Toronto Community Housing, City of Toronto
Founded out of Food Forward, five year old Toronto food non-profit organizing on
new solutions for food access, street food, urban ag
Centre for Social Innovation 2015 City Builder, Agents of Change
Proud to be working on the #11WellesleyMarket with such a great organization!
- Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam
Team
Lisa Kates and Darcy Higgins, Partners
Tare Egbedi, Urban agriculture and education consultant
Marcela Crowe Greenhouse and environmental management consultant
Thompson Nguyen, Designer and heritage consultant
Jen Broadbent, Project manager
Advisors:
Michael McLelland, Partner, ERA
Bronwyn Underhill, Director, Parkdale Community Health Centre
Partners include:
Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, Heart & Stroke Foundation, Native Womens Resource
Centre, Friends of Allan Gardens, TD Bank, Bay Cloverhill Residents Association, Ryerson
University, caterToronto, Centre for Social Innovation, Whole Foods
Ashbridge Estate
The Ashbridge Estate is a beautiful historical property kept by the Ontario Heritage Trust. The
grounds are well valued by neighbours and visitors/shoppers in Leslieville as a place to enjoy, relax
and walk. The space has been used informally for walks and community/school groups, with recent
events drawing greater interest and with very favourable outcomes by all stakeholders.
It has a great potential to balance uses that include residents in innovative programming that is
community-led and in partnership with local groups and schools. Projects and programming on site
would restore natural and cultural heritage that replicates historical uses of the site, which would
have included agriculture, fruit orchards and vegetable gardens, as well as pre-European
settlement food and medicine growing.
Our proposal will make use of nearly all possible site uses suggested by the OHT, including arts
and culture, educational, heritage and festivals, through a theme of good food, which is the best
ingredient in bringing people together.
Create new, more formalized partners and friends of the estate including schools, local groups
and small businesses;
Create beneficial social and educational programming;
Restore food-based cultural heritage to the Ashbridge Estate and provide community education
on this topic;
Significantly increase awareness of the Ontario Heritage Trust in the community.
Community vegetable garden would be great for a section of the grounds, in keeping with the
fact that the house would originally have had such a garden
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There should be a public event at least once a month from spring to fall at this location, this
location is not used enough and if public taxes are paying for it then it should be used in the
public benefit.
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Urban Harvest Festival in Allan Gardens, Fall 2014, by Building roots and partners
Deliverable
Expenses
Fees
Summer-Fall
(July 15-November 15)
Winter
(November 15-March 15)
Spring-Summer
(March 1-July 15)
Program management paid @ $2,800/month. Expect to bring in-kind value from project partners and volunteers of $5-8,000