Orlando oversees FoodShare's food growing projects across the city - turning under utilized schoolyards, hydro corridors, and parks into vibrant and productive urban farms and community gardens. Orlando is passionate about food justice, and community leadership, and provides lots of resources and support for communities to design, implement, and run their own growing and composting projects.

He is a trained agronomist with an incredible depth of knowledge in all aspects of growing food.

Orlando would be pleased to speak on the following topics:

• How to develop, organize and lead a community urban agriculture program
• Community garden initiatives
• Waste reduction through a composting system