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Welcome to the TCGN Website
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For A Vibrant Green Toronto And A Healthy Garden Movement.
Changing the City one root at a time
Feature Stories:
Thorncliffe Park Garden Club-Featured Story for March 2013Ian Kinross has been a member of the Thorncliffe Park Community Garden for many years now, and is a friend of the Toronto Community Garden Network (TCGN)Here is his latest Story: Garden Muse
. What led a retired industrial designer to request a small plot in the community garden near his Thorncliffe highrise? For Mike Murakami, there are many garden inspirations — but his original garden muse is his grandfather Shinjiro. Click here for the rest of this intriguing story |
 . River of Flowers: TorontoIs Coming to Toronto In June . The river in River of Flowers is an evocative way of describing the planting of urban meadows in 'pollination streams' or 'floral green corridors' in order to help our pollinators, bees, butterflies and other insect pollinators, find forage in the city. It describes the flight path of the pollinators as much as it does the flow of wildflowers.. . Each community garden is a pond of pollen for our pollinators. Get joined into the River! . Contact Kathryn Lwin kathryn@riverofflowers.org if you would like her to visit your growing project.' . To find out how you can get your growing garden added to River of Flowers: Toronto |
What is the Toronto Community Garden Network?
The Toronto Community Garden Network (TCGN) is made up of interested and energetic individuals and organizations from across Toronto who are committed to greening and organic gardening across the City of Toronto and to making community gardening an integral part of city life.
Gardens in Toronto are situated on a range of properties, including parks' properties, buildings' rooftops, senior citizens' residences, school board properties, churches, and more.
Mission Statement:
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 Vision of Diversity
The Toronto Community Garden Network is committed to diversity as a central and fundamental aspect of our work. Diversity is essential to the strength and health of communities. It is also essential to the strength and health of gardens, whether they be community gardens or otherwise.
Diversity is central to the TCGN, as we are a diverse group who are open and welcoming to people of all beliefs, experiences, and backgrounds. The TCGN aims for it’s internal diversity to reflect the diversity of the city of Toronto in order to be able to best support the diversity of community gardeners and gardens across the city.
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To help Community Gardens in the City we have set up our website to include the tools you need:
- Toronto Gardens: This is a list of some of the community gardens in Toronto. If your garden isn't on the list yet, then feel free to contact us to find out how to be connected.
- Events, Workshops And Courses: looking for something green to do? then check this folder for what is happening in the city. Here you will also find a calendar of the events with maps of their locations. Having a community garden event or workshop? contact us to get it posted.
- In the Garden Shed: Tools to help you. Design of a compost bin, Community Garden Hand Book, and links to important gardening information.
- Job Posting: Looking for a environmentally friendly Job? Community oriented work? Or perhaps you want to employ someone, here is where it's at!
Volunteer Opportunities
Weather you want to be a TCGN Volunteer, or your Community Garden needs the help of a volunteer...This is your connection!
Survey Monkey
Answer this Survey about your Community Garden and you could win a free delivery of Compost.
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 Google Discussion Email List for a quick response.
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TCGN has an e-Newsletter - is not available at this time -See 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).
Content last modified on April 22, 2013, at 08:14 AM EST