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2010 to 2014
A Recipe for Change
With the finding of 'food deserts' in Toronto, FoodShare's Mobile Good Food Markets delivered vegetables and fruits to people's neighbourhoods. We also published a cookbook, started a rooftop farm and launched the first ever Recipe for Change, bringing chefs across Toronto together...
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2005 to 2009
A New Home
Community led markets. The Great Big Crunch. Good Food Café. Brand new programs, long-held values...
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2000 to 2004
Eat It, Grow It, Share It
The new millenium started off with Toronto's Food Charter, program growth and realizing that you can't grow food without growing food justice.
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1995 to 1999
Welcome to our Community Garden
Eastern Avenue hosts FoodShare’s first food hub, which included a rooftop garden and greenhouse, beekeeping, kitchen and warehouse space.
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1990 to 1994
The First Good Food Box is Packed
FoodShare began moving towards universally accessible programs focused on self-determination and community capacity building to take action according to their own needs...
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1985 to 1989
FoodShare is Born
In 1985, Toronto Mayor Art Eggleton proposed a $20,000 pilot program aimed at combating "the distressing reality" of hunger in the City of Toronto called FoodShare Toronto, which would have volunteer workers taking calls from people who wanted to donate surplus food and from those in need of aid...
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1980
The Land of Milk & Honey
The economic downturn of the 1980s led to increased poverty and hunger in many North American cities and towns and there was a need to establish structures to respond to this crisis. These conditions as well as two other changes in Canadian Society would eventually pave the way for the founding of FoodShare Toronto...
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