Our 2025-2027 Strategic Plan20241218170751
Our 2025-2027 Strategic Plan
December 18, 2024
Introducing our 2025-2027 Strategic PlanIn the winter of 2023, Building Roots reached the remarkable milestone of a decade in the Moss Park community....
Summer Saturdays at the Moss Park Market20230629153049
Summer Saturdays at the Moss Park Market
June 29, 2023
Summer Saturdays at the Moss Park MarketBy Dustin Stern, Director of Community ProgrammingSummertime for Building Roots is a special time. Starting in...
Pop Up Mock Voting Booth at the Moss Part Market20230626111608
Pop Up Mock Voting Booth at the Moss Part Market
June 26, 2023
Pop Up Mock Voting Booth at the Moss Part Marketby Crystal Melin Basi, Director of Community EngagementOver the past few Saturdays we’ve set up a Pop ...
Announcing New Partnership with FoodShare Toronto!20230427114951
Announcing New Partnership with FoodShare Toronto!
April 27, 2023
Announcing New Partnership with FoodShare Toronto! Starting May 6, 2023, Building Roots will be partnering with FoodShare Toronto as the main supplier...
Our PWYC Market is a place of joy, sharing, friendship, and sometimes– conflict20230426101327
Our PWYC Market is a place of joy, sharing, friendship, and sometimes– conflict
April 26, 2023
Our PWYC Market is a place of joy, sharing, friendship, and sometimes– conflict By Amy Rumbolt, Manager, Food Programs & Social Responsibility Whe...
Everyone Has a Story Worth Telling: A Recap of the Opera Makers Collaboration with Regent Park’s Youth Enrichment Academy (YEA!) and the Canadian Opera Company20230328125457
Everyone Has a Story Worth Telling: A Recap of the Opera Makers Collaboration with Regent Park’s Youth Enrichment Academy (YEA!) and the Canadian Opera Company
March 28, 2023
Everyone Has a Story Worth Telling: A Recap of the Opera Makers Collaboration with Regent Park’s Youth Enrichment Academy (YEA!) and the Canadian Oper...
Volunteers from the V Hongkongers Group at the Moss Park Market20230302081802
Volunteers from the V Hongkongers Group at the Moss Park Market
March 2, 2023
Volunteers from the V Hongkongers Group at the Moss Park Market On a cold winter Saturday in late February, the Moss Park Market was bustling with man...
Ackee & Saltfish: The Jamaican dish that went where others feared20230201100033
Ackee & Saltfish: The Jamaican dish that went where others feared
February 1, 2023
If food tells the story of a culture, then the choice of ackee and saltfish as Jamaica’s national dish should speak volumes to the bravado, showiness ...
Community caring in Toronto’s east end20230127141944
Community caring in Toronto’s east end
January 27, 2023
I was walking eastward on Dundas East near Parliament Street. A friendly man walking alongside me began making conversation. It came up that we both p...
Students bring hope for the future20230117091207
Students bring hope for the future
January 17, 2023
Message from Dustin Stern, our Director of Creative Programming: “The students from YEA’s brainstorm today at Opera Makers on what they would ch...