Trinity’s Integrated Sustainability Initiative’s food and agriculture events: Sept. 16 to 20, 2024

Posted: September 13, 2024

Food and gardening images from St Hilda's College and Integrated Sustainability InitiativeIn celebration of Toronto Urban Agriculture Week, Trinity’s Integrated Sustainability Initiative will once again host Integrated Events on Sustainability – a series of food and agriculture workshops and sessions for the community.

From September 16 to 20, 2024 (details below), members of the Trinity community are welcome to join the daily events (no registration is required). Events are located at St. Hilda’s College: 44 Devonshire Place.

If you have any questions about these events, please contact Madeleine Lavin, Sustainability Program Coordinator at Trinity College at m.lavin@utoronto.ca.


Monday, September 16 | Hot Sauce-Making Workshop with Jonathan Steels

Learn how to transform garden-fresh ingredients into delicious hot sauce. We’re using our very own Jalapeño and Time Bomb peppers grown on the Munk Building Rooftop Gardens this summer. This hands-on session is the perfect way to connect with community members and celebrate the harvest season.

  • When: Monday, September 16, 2024 from 11 am to 1 pm
  • Where: Melinda Seaman Hall, St. Hilda’s College

Tuesday, September 17 | Garden Drop-in Session

Join us in the garden! We’re watering, harvesting, planting for fall, and taking care of garden maintenance—and we’d love your help. Come get your hands in the soil and enjoy some time outdoors. Hope to see you there!

  • When: Tuesday, September 17, 2024 from 1 pm to 2 pm
  • Where: Meet in St. Hilda’s College Backyard
  • What to wear: Comfortable clothes you don’t mind getting a bit dirty
  • Bonus: Take home some fresh produce from the harvest

Wednesday, September 18 | Earthsongs: Reimagining Relation in Gardening and Poetry with Bill Kroeger

In this 1-1.5 hour workshop, we will consider some poems and other writings addressing relation between human and other-than-human, focusing on all the members of our local community. We’ll collaborate on fall gardening activities that stimulate attention to our garden and the ecosystem it inhabits. Then, we’ll write some poetry based on prompts that are related to our gardening. Sharing optional!

  • When: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 from 10 am to 11:30 am
  • Where: St. Hilda’s College Front Yard
  • Earthsongs focuses on human gardening experiences, especially in terms of relations with other species: we garden and then we write poetry based on our gardening. We hope that this provides an opportunity to rethink material relationships across disciplinary boundaries – touching the soil, planting, observing plant-animal symbiosis – through poetic re-imagining of these connections with our community (both human and other-than-human). In other words, our poetry helps us reconsider our ecological interrelatedness. The physical materiality of our gardening experiences may also help shape and ground our poetry.

Thursday, September 19 | Garden Drop-in Session

Join us in the garden! We’re watering, harvesting, planting for fall, and taking care of garden maintenance—and we’d love your help! Come get your hands in the soil and enjoy some time outdoors. Hope to see you there!

  • When: Thursday, September 19, 2024 from 1 pm to 2 pm
  • Where: Meet in St. Hilda’s College Backyard
  • What to wear: Comfortable clothes you don’t mind getting a bit dirty
  • Bonus: Take home some fresh produce from the harvest!

Friday, September 20 | Campus Growing Space Tour

Join Trinity College for a guided tour of our campus growing spaces. Whether you’re a garden enthusiast or just curious, this tour is a great opportunity to connect with like-minded folks and discover how we’re cultivating fresh, local produce. All are welcome!

  • When: Friday, September 20, 2024 from 10 am to 12 pm
  • Where: Tour begins at St. Hilda’s College
Friday, September 20 | Campus Food & Urban Agriculture Tabling Event

Learn about food and urban agriculture groups on campus! Get involved, meet passionate people, and explore initiatives that connect our community through sustainable food practices. All are welcome!

  • When: Friday, September 20, 2024 from 12 pm to 2 pm
  • Where: Kirkwood Meadows, St. Hilda’s College

 


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