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