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Five Senses Urban Farm Tour20220825174454
Five Senses Urban Farm Tour
Kari KlassenAugust 25, 2022
In celebration of Urban Agriculture Week Where: Building Roots’ urban farm (Queen & Greenwood) When: Thursday, September 15th, 2022, 6pm Or: Satur...
August Volunteer of the Month: Lyndsey Crymble20220803141419
August Volunteer of the Month: Lyndsey Crymble
Kari KlassenAugust 3, 2022
Lyndsey Crymble is August’s hard-working volunteer of the month at Ashbridge Urban Farm and Moss Park Market. Volunteer position Delivery person...
The Windows of Perception20220330185022
The Windows of Perception
Kate HamiltonMarch 30, 2022
Long days at home, in the last two years. We’ve all filled them somehow – baking or cleaning, quarreling or playing, sitting in front of the televisio...
Greens: So Many Choices20220309215814
Greens: So Many Choices
Kate HamiltonMarch 9, 2022
Greens:So Many ChoicesAn Educational & Personal Reflection from the Ashbridge EstateBy: Kate HamiltonOne of the joys at the Building Roots urban f...
National and International “Days”: So Many Choices20220223210231
National and International “Days”: So Many Choices
Kate HamiltonFebruary 23, 2022
National and International “Days”:So Many ChoicesA Personal Perspective on the personality behind our Ashbridge Estate Urban FarmBy: Kate HamiltonThe ...
Jamaica in January: A video by Jamaican Eats Magazine20210225173702
Jamaica in January: A video by Jamaican Eats Magazine
Building RootsFebruary 25, 2021
JAMAICA IN JANUARY: Sun Worshippers. Beach Lovers. Homesick Jamaicans. COVID-Weary People Everywhere. JAMAICA IS CALLING! This foodie forward e...
We are [safely] opening up our shelves once again!20210210112455
We are [safely] opening up our shelves once again!
Building RootsFebruary 10, 2021
Reading is a way for me to feel better. Stories transport me to another world. Books allow us to learn, to nurture and grow empathy, and in a world th...
A Winter Update From Building Roots’ Urban Farm at Ashbridge Estate20210104081100
A Winter Update From Building Roots’ Urban Farm at Ashbridge Estate
Kate HamiltonJanuary 4, 2021
The Building Roots urban farm at Ashbridge Estate is small (there’s not a lot of room in a city) but mighty – mighty enough to transform this worrying...
Moss Park : A Love Story20201209113435
Moss Park : A Love Story
Dustin SternDecember 9, 2020
" Thank you to all of my neighbours in Moss Park, housed and unhoused. We will get through this - and the next challenge, and the next – facing up to ...
Join Us In Our Mission: The Support Our Unhoused Neighbours Campaign20201112151008
Join Us In Our Mission: The Support Our Unhoused Neighbours Campaign
Building RootsNovember 12, 2020
Jeff Bierk of Encampment Support Network (ESN), a group of volunteers who organizes in a grassroots way to bring supplies, awareness, and acts of kind...