Toronto Black Farmers and Food Growers Collective
Year of inception: 2013
Brand name: Toronto Black Farmers Collectve
Address: blackfarmersto@gmail.com
Postal code: M6M 3R5
Business category: Urban Agriculture
Primary Contact Details
Name: Jacqueline Dwyer
Email: blackfarmersto@gmail.com
Phone: 14164573403
Website: http://www.torontoblackfarmers.ca
Identifier: DV
Company Description
The Toronto Black Farmers Collective is a urban farming collective that advocates for “clean food” that is culturally relevant and locally grown, made accessible and affordable to people that don’t get to eat organic food in their neighborhoods. We serve many low-income households, individuals, seniors, youth able or disabled eaters.
Good food is a human right, when a conscious effort is made for all people to eat clean there is less impact on our health care system and our health and well being is balanced.
This is work is vital through leadership for all neighborhoods to realize their full potential through education, training and reskilling. Our mantra is creating safe space through food so that oppression and barriers to good food is dismantled. Our health and wellness is not a fashion, but a lifestyle.
Community & Social Impact
Toronto Black Farmers Collective serves 33 low income neighborhoods through leadership, partnership and collaboration. We work with neighborhood leaders to ensure that the best quality, culturally relevant and affordable food gets into to the hands of low-income people.
We value people, their cultural dishes and delights – through good food we consistently breakdown barriers and build bridges. This work came out of food oppression, anti-black racism and marginalization of Afro-peoples residing in the GTA. Oppression does not always come from other cultures but many times our own people so we decided to lead by example and nine years later we are still on the path of justice, equity coupled with honest conversation about the right to good healthy food, healthy environment for our community and future generations coming.