community shared agriculture

ICELAND

Ignatius Farm: CSA1. Leased by the Jesuits who focus on connection with nature

for spirituality and focused on a variety of nature trails and conservation projects

2. Community Shared Agriculture: People buy shares of harvest

3. Also hosts a variety of young farmers trying to start their own farms (Funded by Farmstart.ca)

4. Uses a holistic “Biodynamic” Approach to growing food

5. Under the CRAFT (The Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training in Ontario) program

a. Aims to train new interns to become organic farmers

b. Holds over a dozen Farms, 100 interns

c. Holds weekly workshops and “CRAFT Days”

Ontario: Greenbelt

http://www.ourgreenbelt.ca/our-greenbelt/about-ontario-greenbelt

Ontario Greenbelt• 1.8 million acres (728,000 hectares)

wraps around the Golden Horseshoe

• Area of permanently protected green space, farmland, vibrant communities, forests, wetlands, and watersheds.

• Includes Niagra Escarpment, Oak Ridges Moraine, Rouge Park, and designated agricultural land.

• Land cannot be taken out of the Greenbelt or replaced

Plowing: Mad Max Tractor

Old Tabacco tractor with reverse driving: Driven with legs

Greenhouse: Our Babies

Full of seedlings, compost, and fucking wasps

Inside the Wasp Infested Greenhouse

Had combustion heating system: Nights were very cold

Transplanting

On a cart mounted on bike wheels, that took five hours to repair

Dropping

Syncronized planters with droppers for speed

The Horrors of Pests

Rowcovers to prevent flea beetles from getting to vegetables

Someone Get Doogie Housier on this Starship Troopers shit

What happens when you plant potatoes too close to one another

Irrigation

Calcium rich groundwater clogged emitters of Drip lines

Dry, Dry Summers

Cucumbers suffering from nutrient deficiencies: Used compost tea

Harvest Day: Transporting

Transport, prewashing, and weighing

Harvest Day: Put ‘em on Ice

Vegetables cooled by freezing ice in tubs from another freezer to cut costs

Harvest Day: CSA Pick Up

After being weighed out, proportions for each member was assigned based on share size; wet blankets used to keep vegetables moist

Interlude: Guelph Culture<-- 1. Other interns forced me to

watch this to indoctrinate me into Ontario Culture

2. Hippies, Anarchists, Oh my!

3. Lots of homelessnessa. Guelph is one of the few cities

that offers them help

b. Youth centre closed down during my stay there, forcing a hundred kids on the street

Community: Music Of Guelph

Best Artist Of the Year:

Best LabelEver:

Community: Coffee + Beer

Community: Hillside Festival

Toronto-Terrana (Known to Western Canadians as #%*#$&%)

Hundreds of Community Gardens; Ex: Near Mental Hospital

Food Assistance in Toronto: Food Share

http://www.foodshare.net/

- Healthy food for community centres and people of lower income.

- Inside of a closed down middle school that acts as a community centre

A Toronto’s Farmer’s Market

Ontario Food Terminal• Supplies 50% of Toronto’s daily food, shipped

to different restaurants, wholesalers, ect.• Mostly conventional farmers appear at the

farmer’s markets, mostly out of necessity– Mostly supermarket owners shop in these stalls– To sell in bulk

• All of the workers at the OFT are recent migrants

• The follies of the “Made in Canada” Label:

no one enforces it, could only be processed

in Canada instead of grown

OFT: Industrial and small conventional Farmer’s Market

Every farmer there told us not to go into farming

OTF: The Shipping News

For specific warehouses rented by various companies

OTF: Storage = Towers of temperature controlled food

Wow, we organic farmers live in an insulated world