Canada: Growing food for those in need from a downtown office? Cheap and easy, says London charity
Simmons called having the opportunity to work with the plants and learn how to nurture them from seedling to full maturity “life-changing.”
By Alessio Donnini
CBC News
Dec 28, 2024
Excerpt:
An urban farming project is sprouting hope in downtown London, with trays of microgreens grown in a simple office space providing fresh, nutritious food to those facing food insecurity, while offering valuable job skills to adults with disabilities.
The PATCH does this all through an unusual setup that demonstrates how easily urban spaces can be transformed into productive farms in a cost-effective way, and how such transformations can stave off hunger in the community.
“It’s really funny. We’re in an office space, right in the core of downtown London, and we’re growing veggies in trays on shelves that we bought from Costco,” said Joe Gansevles, the coordinator of urban agriculture with the PATCH program, a Hutton House initiative.
Supported by Hutton House, the Kensington Village Association, the Nathan T. Deslippe fund and a grant from Maple Leaf Foods, The PATCH has done this work for almost a decade, using the fruits of that labour to nourish the community.
The nutrient-dense veggies are taken to a fresh food bank at First Baptist Church, next to Victoria Park, for people in need to eat.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/canada-growing-food-for-those-in-need-from-a-downtown-office-cheap-and-easy-says-london-charity/
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