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Job posting: November 23, 2009
Focus on Food Youth Intern Positions
FoodShare Toronto is now hiring for 12 positions for a 24 week long, full time, paid internship in our Focus on Food Youth Project
If you are interested in a multi-faceted work environment, we will train you to work, as a team, in either our food distribution warehouse, kitchen, office, or urban agriculture program.
This program also includes weekly life skills sessions providing valuable training and hands on experience with a range of interpersonal and professional skills from nutrition and how our food system works, first aid and health and safety training, financial management, employment counseling and more.
To qualify for the program you must be:
• Between the ages of 15-30
• Unemployed
• Have had difficulty finding long-term employment
• And/or a newcomer to Canada
You must be eager to work and learn in a team environment and ready and committed to work a full day, everyday.
The positions pay minimum wage for a 37.5 hour work week beginning on Monday January 11th and ending on Friday June 25, 2010.
How to apply
Register for an orientation session on either Tuesday December 8th or Tuesday December 15th. Please call either 416-363-6441 ext 224 or 416-347-0774 by Friday December 4, 2009
The Application Process includes:
1. Registering and attending an orientation session at FoodShare, 90 Croatia Street on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 where you will meet staff, spend the day working in our Good Food Box warehouse, receive an overview of our program and have your questions answered
2. Complete an application form and schedule a follow up interview for later that week
About FoodShare:
FoodShare (www.foodshare.net) is a Toronto non-profit community organization whose vision is Good Healthy Food for All. Founded 25 years ago to address hunger in our communities, FoodShare takes a unique multi-faceted and long-term approach to hunger and food issues.
Working "from field to table," we focus on the entire system that puts food on our tables: from the growing, processing and distribution of food to its purchasing, cooking and consumption. FoodShare's programs reach over 145,000 children and adults every single month across every month in the city of Toronto and countless others across Canada, bringing them fresh, nutritious, affordable food, and cultivating the knowledge and skills that build healthy communities.
Join the Garden and Food Curriculum Working Group and Slow Food Toronto on Friday November 27th for
An Evening Celebrating Edible Schoolyards with two exciting events
1. Garden and Food Curriculum Workshop 4:30 - 6:00
Are you an educator looking for easy and exciting ways of incorporating food and gardening into your classroom?
On Friday November 27th from 4:30 to 6:30 Join the Garden and Food Curriculum Working Group for a free workshop where you'll receive great activities, resources and lesson plans from some of the cities most fabulous garden and food educators.
The Garden and Food Curriculum Working Group is a collaborative network of organizations and individuals, mainly based in the GTA, doing school food garden education. We have been meeting for over a year now to share activities and resources at monthly meetings.
When: Friday, Nov 27th 4:30 to 6:00pm
Where: FoodShare - 90 Croatia Street (just south and west of Dufferin/Bloor)
Who: Teachers who are already teaching about gardens/food or who are interested in starting. Experienced staff/volunteers/educators working for non-profit environmental and educational organizations involved in establishing, promoting and sustaining school food and school garden programs.
What:
• Dinner!
• Information about this working group
• Hands-on activities for in-garden and in-classroom learning
• Facilitated conversation about increasing gardens and food in the curriculum
Special guest: Kathy Aldous, Edible Schoolyard coordinator, Dr. Arthur Hines Elementary School, Nova Scotia.
Objectives of the Garden and Food Curriculum Working Group:
• To develop curriculum-linked activities complementary to the Ontario School curriculum
• To provide relevant and accessible garden and food activities
• To share and collaborate on ideas and projects related to garden and food education
• To provide links and information about educational and environmental resources
2. The Edible Schoolyard - Film and Discussion 6:00 - 7:00
Join Kathy Aldous of Slow Food Nova Scotia, to view their video "The Edible Schoolyard" and learn from their shared experience of inspiring children to grow, cook and share food.
Kathy will share some background on the garden at Dr. Arthur Hines School and the community activities that have developed around it.
For more information, visit: http://tinyurl.com/ye5u4wm
Please R.S.V.P to Paul DeCampo - paul@foodshare.net
Slow Food Toronto Presents…
Terra Madre Day, Celebrating Local Food!
Enjoy the delicious offerings of Ontario’s Farms, Food Producers and Community
Hosted By FoodShare at
Where: 90 Croatia Street, Toronto
When: Thursday December 10th, 6-9pm
Tickets: UofTTix http://www.uofttix.ca/
or (416) 978-8849
or $10 at the door, no cost for kids under 12!
About Terra Madre Day
The very first worldwide Terra Madre Day is being held on December 10, 2009 to celebrate Slow Food International’s twentieth anniversary, in recognition of the importance of supporting local food networks. Terra Madre Day will be celebrated in endless ways by the Slow Food network all around the world. Celebrations will take place on farms and in homes, in schools and communities, in cities and rural areas: from New York to New Delhi, Turkey to Tanzania, Austria to Argentina.
What is Slow Food Toronto doing for Terra Madre Day?
Slow Food Toronto will celebrate Ontario’s local food community with delicious sustainable offerings, music and family friendly activities held at FoodShare on Thursday December 10th, open to the public from 6-9pm. Travel through the various stations, sample delicious local product and have an opportunity to connect with the people who produce, raise, grow, cook and advocate for it all!
For more information, please contact:
Paul DeCampo,paul@toronto.slowfood.ca or, Miriam Streiman at miriamstreiman@hotmail.com
Slow Food Toronto: http://toronto.slowfood.ca/
FoodShare: http://www.foodshare.net/
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Local, Organic Garlic Available
Have you secured your winter supply of local, organic garlic?
Grown on The Cutting Veg Organic Farm in Brampton, 7 varieties of Organic Garlic are still available for order, specifically: Italian, Korean, Persian, Sicilian, Ukrainian, Yugoslavian, and Russian.
For more information about the specific varieties, or to download the order form, please visit http://www.thecuttingveg.com,
or contact Daniel Hoffmann at daniel@thecuttingveg.com
Set yourself up for a winter of good health, and fabulous flavours with local, organic garlic from The Cutting Veg. Also, local, organic garlic makes for great holiday gifts!
Daniel Hoffmann
The Cutting Veg
(647)388-7444
http://www.thecuttingveg.com
"Cultivating Personal, Social, Environmental, and Economic Health through Organic Agriculture."
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Call for Proposals: Junk Raiders
Junk Raiders television show wants to build your green based community infrastructure project.
Background
Junk Raiders is a television program airing on the Discovery Channel produced by Toronto's Proper Television.
The first season saw two of Toronto's top garbage salvagers team up with five professionals from the world of construction to renovate a 1,600 square foot factory space into a hip live/work space. ..using almost entirely recycled materials. An amazing and beautiful feat that the team accomplished in only 22 days.
For the second season we'd like to up the stakes a bit, and challenge our Junk Raiders to a project that's even bigger - to build an entire freestanding structure out of recycled materials all found on the streets of Toronto – all in only one month.
What are we looking for?
We're on the hunt for communities who have identified a need for some kind of structure, but haven't yet begun the actual building of it. The sky's the limit right now in terms of what kind of project we're looking at. Maybe it's a change room for an outdoor skating rink. Or maybe it's a a multifaceted garden shed/bread oven. Or perhaps a small clubhouse of some sort. The only conditions are that it would have walls and a roof.
What would your community get if your project is chosen?
A finished beautiful one of a kind structure, complete with artistic flourishes that only our Junk Raiders can come up with. Plus all the exposure of being the focus of an internationally aired green television program. All at no cost to the community.
How do you apply?
Send an email to junkraiders@propertelevision.com with “Junk Raiders Project” in the subject line. Let us know what the idea is, where it would ideally be built (with photos if possible), and who you are. And don't worry too much about length, brief is better.
Deadline: November 30, 2009
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