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posted March 24, 2009

The Story Behind The TCGN
The Toronto Community Garden Network is working to encourage a healthy community gardening movement in the City of Toronto, supporting and linking community gardeners.
Our goal is to encourage the creation of gardens across the City of Toronto and to make community gardening an integral part of city life.
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The Toronto Community Garden Network -also know as the TCGN -was formed in 1999 as a natural progression of the increasing interest in community gardening. FoodShare had sponsored an annual winter meeting of community garden leaders since 1996. It was at the March 1999 meeting that the idea of formalizing the group into a network arose.

Advocacy with all levels of government is seen as an integral activity of the network in order to ensure the accessibility of opportunities for gardening. It was at the suggestion of the TCGN that Toronto's City Council adopted the 1999 Community Garden Action Plan that calls for the creation of a community garden in a park in every ward. Since that time TCGN members have received much welcomed support from Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation. By working together TCGN and Parks, Forestry and Recreation have created a supportive climate for community gardening that is looked to as a model by groups and municipalities across the country and abroad.
The following year, TCGN organized a conference of the American Community Gardening Association, in partnership with Parks, Forestry, and Recreation, and FoodShare Toronto. Not only did gardeners from across Toronto meet and exchange ideas with each other but also with community gardeners, activists and municipal staff from around the world. The conference would not have been possible had it not been for the tireless volunteer efforts of many, many TCGN members who were very eager to show off Toronto's community gardens.
For A Vibrant Green Toronto And A Healthy Garden Movement.
Changing the City one root at a time

This year we are featuring the
Gardeners will benefit from NANPS' expertise and large varieties of bio-regional native flowers.
As we know, native flowers are an integral part of any vegetable garden. No native flowers, no bees or insects, thus no vegetables or fruits.
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To help Community Gardens in the City we have set up our website to include the tools you need:
Join our public email discussion listif you have something to Share, Trade or Donate, or if you really need some garden related item, that you would like posted onto the website please contact mail@tcgn, or you can join the Public Discussion Email List for a quick response. To subscribe to our public discussion email list, enter your email address below: |
TCGN has an e-NewsletterSee a sample of Toronto Community Garden Newsletter. Subscribe to the e-newsletter here. ![]() |
This website is for general information, and for the networking use of community gardeners in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We encourage both a co-operative approach to gardening, and the practices of organic growing methods.
Thanks to CELOS, http://celos.ca/wiki/wiki.php, who currently host and tutor for both this website and many individual community gardens' websites, using PmWiki, (see www.parkcommons.ca for a list of other community gardens' websites).