From Schoolyard to Table

Photo by Sarah Wiggins
Students at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, tend to the vegetable field planted on the school’s unused green space. It’s FoodShare’s largest School Grown farm project to date.
Kevin Tran, top left, and Sara Wara, above left, harvest some of the School Grown produce that ends up in FoodShare’s “Good Food Boxes” — a community-supported agriculture subscription or share service. While Adam Dirks and Ravits, bottom right, plan the week's deliveries.
The “Advancing Food Justice Box” is “designed based on an understanding of some of the inequities in our food system,” and addresses the fact that black, indigenous and racialized communities experience higher rates of food insecurity in Toronto. The box offers products grown explicitly by farms that are led, run or owned by those under-represented groups.
Daniel Ravits and Nadia Walloschek (top left and right) show off some of the vegetables grown on-site, including zucchini, beets, cucumbers and lettuce.
They sell the produce weekly at the student-run farmers' market located at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate on Thursdays, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.