City of Toronto Workers Destroy Free
Community Food Garden Amid Growing Food Crisis
This morning workers from the City of Toronto were ordered by City of Toronto
Parks Director Richard Ubbens to remove all live plants and food from the
People's Peas Garden in Queens Park. They were ordered to take the plants and
food to the dump and lay sod overtop of this most beautiful free comm
unity food garden, without warning, without a chance to
remove the rare heirloom plant species or harvest the food. The garden was
planted by Occupy Gardens and allies on May 1st, in defense of local and global
food security. While the garden has been growing undisturbed for nearly 5
months, with the help of hundreds in the community, the city deliberately
decided to have it removed upon the eve of the Autumn Jam: A Harvest Party and
celebration of sharing, community and free local food, which is happening
tomorrow from 12-6pm at the garden in Queens Park (northwest section).
EVENT PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/events/414496608609039/
The reason? The people did not have permission to grow free food on public
land. I come from a city and country where one does not need permission to do
the right thing. We are experiencing a "glocal" food crisis, where
more and more people are lining up at food banks for kraft dinner and peanut
butter, waiting lists for community gardens are growing, food prices rising,
and our leaders are nowhere to be seen. Rather they are hiding behind their
desk ordering the workers to destroy whatever hope we have left.
We need help sharing this story far and wide.
We will be having our Autumn Jam harvest party/vigil tomorrow as scheduled from
12noon-6pm in the northwest section of Queens Park.
As a side note - last Monday Sept 17th gardeners travelled to Ottawa on a Peas
Keeping mission for national, global food security, where we planted a free
heart-shaped food garden on Parliament Hill, at which point the RCMP stomped on
the plants and threatened arresting people, we removed the plants and relayed
the sod.
Thanks so much for your time and help,
In Peas, Lovage & SOILidarity!
Jacob Kearey-Moreland- Occupy Gardens Toronto
RCMP Stop Occupy Toronto From Planting Garden On Parliament Hill
Monday, October 1st- Right to Food Rally - NO GARDEN IS ILLEGAL http://www.facebook.com/events/185270878275210/
we are bringing the garden to them and are going to plant a free food garden at
city hall
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