Resources

Green Roof information

• APOD Rooftop Garden profile (PDF  1 MB)
• AAMHCS Green Roof overview (PDF 2.3 MB)
• Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
• Toronto’s Eco-Roof incentive program

Community gardening resources

• Community Gardens in East Toronto and Scarborough guide to gardening opportunities (PDF)
• Community Gardening Best Practices Guide by Greenest City (PDF)
• Toronto Community Garden Network – includes a map of community gardens around Toronto, resources and events listing
• City of Toronto Community Gardens implementation process – step by step guide

Gardening tips

• You Grow Girl
  
  
• Plant identification and plant databases

• Plants for a future
• Better Homes and Gardens plant encyclopedia
• Prelude Medicinal Plants Database – plants in different traditional veterinarian and human medicines in Africa

Seeds

• Urban Harvest
• Terra Edibles
• Seeds of Diversity – conserving the biodiversity and traditional knowledge of food crops and garden plants
• Richter’s Herbs – seeds and plants from herbs including rare and around the world
• AgroHaitai 

Food and garden organizations in Toronto

• The Permaculture Project GTA – a permaculture hub
• The Stop Community Food Centre – increasing access to healthy food and challenging inequity
• Toronto Green Community – engaging Torontonians in environmental initiatives where we live
• Evergreen – imagine your city with nature
• FoodShare – good, healthy food for all
• Greenest City – environmental education and building healthy neighbourhoods
• Green Thumbs Growing Kids – school-community food gardens and education
  
  
• Urban farms

• Farmstart – encouraging and supporting a new generation of entrepreneurial, ecological farmers
• Fresh City Farms – organic produce grown by member farmers at Downsview park
• Black Creek Community Farm –  at Jane and Steeles

Food action

• Toronto Food Policy Council – bringing people together for food policy innovation and action
• GrowTO – Toronto’s Urban Agriculture Action Plan
• Canadian Biotechnology Action Network – action on biotechnology, environment, health and food