Green Oasis on Broadview

Keeping Chickens in your Toronto Backyard!?
It’s true, Torontonians  are catching onto this trend, following other Ontarian and Canadian cities in taking care of chickens in their very own backyards and bringing new meaning to the terms “urban farm”.  Imagine having the freshest, organic eggs straight from your own flock for breakfast… Toronto Chickens is hosting [...]

78% of the earth’s atmosphere is nitrogen. Abundant and useful, it stabilizes other elements in the atmosphere and is an essential nutrient for plants and animals to produce amino acids, which are a component of proteins and DNA. Proteins enable plants to grow strong stems and green leaves. Protein also gives the plants more nutritional [...]

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You are invited into the garden next week, Wednesday July 15, for a special seed bomb workshop.  We will gather in the garden to get our hands dirty and form clods of dirt and clay containing live vegetation that can be lobbed into favourite vacant lots, deposited over fences into abandoned construction sites, or dropped [...]

The canning workshop tonight (Sept 15) will be at Chocosol Cacao Loft! Feel free to drop in even if it’s for a few minutes.  4 pm!

This Friday (August 29) our work party will be shifted to a later hour.  We will get started around three in the afternoon and finish up at six.  We will be harvesting and preparing the land for next year’s garden.  Hope to see you in the garden!  

Our second weekly work party at the Green Oasis forest garden will be kicking off tomorrow at noon.  Come spend time sharing knowledge and getting your hands dirty in our beautiful space behind the Loblaws located on Broadview Avenue.  The mint is abundant and the sunflowers are waiting for you…see you there!

We will be beginning our weekly urban agriculture work parties at Green Oasis, starting this Friday August 15 at noon. Come and spend some time in the garden, weeding, planting, and sharing ideas with friends and neighbours.
For more information contact Rosy, our new volunteer coordinator:
rosy (at) greenoasisonbroadview.ca

Welcome Rosy, who has offered to take the mantle for coordinating finer details of Green Oasis on Broadview.
She will be organizing events, communicating with our members and volunteers as well as updating the site!