To Make A Farm — A Documentary

By Ivy Knight on May 18th, 2012 No Comments »

The story of the young­ster leav­ing the farm, aban­don­ing a lifestyle that has been in their fam­ily for gen­er­a­tions and mov­ing to the city is not a new one. And it is still hap­pen­ing, now more than ever, on an increas­ingly alarm­ing scale.

Did you know that within ten years, up to sev­enty five per­cent of farm­ers are expected to retire? How will this affect the food land­scape? Are there enough young peo­ple going into farm­ing to replace them? How will our food be grown and managed?

These and more ques­tions are exam­ined in the thought pro­vok­ing doc­u­men­tary, To Make a Farm, screen­ing at the Royal Theatre in Toronto on, June 21, per­haps fit­tingly, the first day of sum­mer. Continue »


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Community Calendar, April 2012

By Ivy Knight on April 9th, 2012 No Comments »

Spring is here and that means it is time for Terroir! Taking place on April 23rd, Terroir will fea­ture a ros­ter of incred­i­ble guest speak­ers includ­ing Chef Ben Shewry from Attica in Melbourne, Australia, Ken Friedman from the Spotted Pig in New York City, author of “For Cod and Country” Ben Seaver, and more. There will also be a view­ing of an exclu­sive doc­u­men­tary inter­view with NOMA’s Rene Redzepi. For ticket infor­ma­tion, go here. Continue »


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Make Your Dad A Star

By Ivy Knight on April 4th, 2012 No Comments »

It’s back! Apron Strings is our super fun annual video series that takes you into the kitchens of real home cooks to learn how they make their favourite fam­ily recipes and it is back for another year. But this time we’re look­ing for dads, uncles, grandpas…We know they can do more than bar­be­cue steaks or fry up some eggs. Check out the infor­ma­tion below and fill in the con­test form by click­ing here and enter your dad today

Remember, you need to fill in the form to be offi­cially entered to be a star! Now go ahead, and fill it in!


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Get Your Green On

By Ivy Knight on April 2nd, 2012 2 Comments »

Friday, April 13th will be a lucky day for res­i­dents of Toronto, as the Green Living Show will be held at the Direct Energy Centre at Exhibition place. This is North America’s largest Green con­sumer show, with over four hun­dred exhibitors demon­strat­ing green, earth– friendly and sus­tain­able solu­tions and ideas that affect all walks of life: energy, well­ness, fash­ion and beauty, trans­porta­tion and food and bev­er­age are just a few of the areas that will be show­cased. Continue »


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Community Calendar — March 2012

By Ivy Knight on March 5th, 2012 No Comments »

March is usu­ally a bright but cold month, this last frosty snap will soon give way to April show­ers and May flow­ers, we hope. This month means only one thing to stu­dents, teach­ers and par­ents though,

March Break!!!

Here are a few fun events to check out dur­ing the break: Continue »


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