Useful Links

Local Food

• One Book One Community Blog (The "100 Mile Diet" was chosen as the 2007 selection)
• Foodlink Connecting Waterloo Region to Local Food!

Resource/Sponsorship Possibilities

• 4 Free Sheds Available – 8ft x 16ft. The roof is slanted in one direction, the highest point is 9ft the lower point is 7 ft.  All 4 are in roughly the same condition.  The location of the sheds can be found at region recycling centers, locations. Need to provide transportation. Call Dave Johnstone, Tel. (519)883-5150 Ext 8413
• http://www.davidsuzuki.org/NatureChallenge/GardenContest/
• http://www.kitchener.ca/award_prog/festival_neighbourhoods.html
• If you are looking for items for your garden – from a shed to fencing to planting pots – try posting an ad on Kijiji (http://kitchener.kijiji.ca) or Craig’s List (http://kitchener.en.craigslist.ca).  This is a great way to find cheap or free items for your garden.  You can search other’s ads to see if there is something that you could use or you could put your own posting on there to ask for exactly what you need.
• There is also a Yahoo Group Freecycle. You have to sign up to be a member with Yahoo email account but you will have access to a variety of free items that may be of use to your garden.  Again you could post items that you are in need of as well.  http://www.freecycle.org/group/Canada/Ontario/Kitchener/info
• Mushroom Compost Available for Purchase.  If you are interested please contact Heather at Victoria Hills Community Garden.  Tel. (519)745-7242

Miscellaneous

• Sustain Ontario website has been launched! Sustain Ontario - The Alliance for Healthy Food and Farming. Food Connects Us All! Join a growing network of organizations, farmers and enterprises working on food and agriculture issues in Ontario.
• Cambridge Activities Guide
• Will Allen at the Growing Power Farm
• Path to Freedom
• ‘The Garden’ is a film that explores and exposes the fault lines in American society and raises crucial and challenging questions about liberty, equality, and justice for the poorest and most vulnerable among us.  It documents the struggles of citizens in a Los Angeles neighbourhood to take back their community garden:  http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Va6VaUIQSxU and http://www.blackvalleyfilms.com/
• Hands For Nature: A Volunteer Management Handbook: http://www.evergreen.ca/en/resources/docs/hands/hands-04.html#4-1
• No Plot is Too Small: A Community's Guide to Restoring Public Landscapes by Stewart Chisholm and Randee Holmes http://www.evergreen.ca/en/cg/resources/noplot/
• Master Gardener resource: Growing Plants From Seeds