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Our 2025-2027 Strategic Plan20241218170751
Our 2025-2027 Strategic Plan
Building RootsDecember 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....
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
Building RootsApril 26, 2023
Our PWYC Market is a place of joy, sharing, friendship, and sometimes– conflict By Amy Rumbolt, Manager, Food Programs & Social Responsibility Whe...
Volunteers from the V Hongkongers Group at the Moss Park Market20230302081802
Volunteers from the V Hongkongers Group at the Moss Park Market
Building RootsMarch 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...
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 ...
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 ...
Open Letter against Encampment Evictions from Building Roots20201203154012
Open Letter against Encampment Evictions from Building Roots
Building RootsDecember 3, 2020
We care deeply about the encampments and our unhoused neighbours for multiple reasons and urge against encampment evictions. Folks in the encampment s...
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...