Greenest City is an award-winning charitable organization that grows local organic food, youth leaders and healthy, sustainable communities with a focus on Toronto’s Parkdale-High Park neighbourhood. Our animated, community-driven initiatives are grounded in urban agriculture.

Why focus on food? Because we believe that food and urban agriculture offer opportunities to connect people to nature, to each other and to new skills, simultaneously addressing a variety of critical urban issues.

There is a reason community members named our first garden “HOPE.” The garden is animated by neighbours working side by side to grow a healthier, more sustainable, community. A sense of hope is in the air.

Participation in Greenest City’s programming improves the physical, mental and social health of community members, many of whom are immigrants, and/or living in poverty. Our programs reduce social isolation and contribute to a stronger sense of community. They also improve everyone’s environmental health by promoting local and organic food, which reduces toxins and helps to combat climate change by reducing the distance food travels. The well-tended gardens beautify public spaces and make them safer. Our youth programs create much needed job and leadership opportunities.

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