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The Multicultural Greening Project was an initiative dedicated to working with Toronto's diverse groups to undertake community-based greening actions and raise a multicultural perspective for environmental justice.
2002 saw the wrap-up of the Multicultural Greening Project. Responsibility for the existing gardens has been turned over to the community groups or property management that Greenest City worked with to establish the gardens. The project was wrapped up because of an absence of continued funding, although Greenest City continued to work with the community groups to a certain extent assisting in the development process for a long-term maintenance plan for the gardens.
Project Components:
- Community Greening - working with groups to start community gardens, composting and tree-planting projects in their neighbourhood.
- Feeding the City from the Back Forty - raising awareness about the many social and environmental issues related to "food miles" (our globally, unsustainable food system based on long-distance food transportation).
- Seeds of Our City - a partnership project of FoodShare with Afri-Can Food Basket, Toronto Environmental Alliance and Greenest City, to document urban food production, the benefits of community gardens and the rich diversity of urban farming techniques practiced by new immigrants in Toronto.
For more information about the Multicultural Greening Project, please email
It takes a community to care for the environment and a healthy environment nourishes a community. Greenest City works with residents and management of apartment buildings and social housing to take "greening action" that involves residents in meaningful, sustainable activities and programs to improve community life and the environment…their environment.
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