About me:

Annie and Elia Morrison are two activated and informed individuals who have been bred against the grain, born and raised in Parkdale, Toronto. They hold a desire to promote ideas and knowledge to assist in bringing together two groups: those who have the skill, those who need the skill. Both educated at OCAD, and working in food awareness, film, print, retail and managerial positions, they possess the ability to turn their idea into reality. They currently own and operate a successful window art gallery, Fine & Dandy. Food and how we relate to it is an ever growing concern, food is how we live. To gain the knowledge of how to successfully produce, prepare, and enjoy food empowers us to sustain ourselves and our community on a day to day basis.

Business Description:

The Toronto Centre for Food Activism will bring together people with the knowledge of alternative food-raising, production preparation, and cultivation with people who have the desire to learn or to seek out how to fabricate the thing they believe in. In an urban setting, it is often hard to uncover the knowledge needed to move forward with an idea. Where to buy organic chicken feed, what are the by-laws governing urban bee-keeping, how to make your own healthy baby food from locally produced ingredients, what type of Heritage plants do best in this climate, where to get a proper cart to pull behind your bike, where do the best oysters come from and how do they taste, how to create a healthy sourdough starter and how to build an outdoor oven to bake the bread in, how to plan a community oven, where to get your soil tested for safe urban growing, how to smoke or preserve your own food; the list is as long as the members wish. By providing a space for workshops, we will pair the skill with the desire. A monthly newsletter, a web based learning centre, podcasts, on line instruction, we will make information accessible in many formats to our membership holders. We will draw on our extensive list of chefs, food producers, bakers, builders, artists, and teachers who will use the space to hold workshops for all interested participants. A community hub, an active learning centre, an alternative approach on to how to sustain ourselves in an urban setting. The Toronto Centre for Food Activism.

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