Green Thumbs Growing Kids rooftop garden tours & other TO Climate Week events

[Rhonda Teitel-Payne]

Have you ever wondered about Toronto’s rooftop gardens? 

This Toronto Climate Week, Green Thumbs Growing Kids is opening two guided rooftop garden tours showcasing how food growing, learning, and climate action are happening on the city’s rooftops in real time.

From a quarter-acre rooftop garden at Eastdale Collegiate Institute to a downtown rooftop farm in Regent Park, these active growing spaces demonstrate how students and community members are putting urban climate solutions into practice.

Both tours highlight how rooftops function as spaces for food production, biodiversity, composting systems, education, and community connection - not as abstract ideas, but as part of everyday city life.

 Explore what’s growing above the city

 Take part in guided seed planting (weather dependent)

 Learn how composting systems close the loop between food waste and food production

 Discover how green infrastructure supports climate adaptation in cities

 Connect with the people building community-based food systems in Toronto

Sign up now before spots fill up:

 Rooting for Rooftops: Green Thumbs UP Rooftop Farm

Wed, June 3, 6:00–7:00 PM

Register  https://luma.com/tocw-03pf

 Rooting for Rooftops: Eastdale Collegiate School Garden

Thu, June 4, 5:30–6:30 PM

Register  https://luma.com/tocw-8xw0

See you there 

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Find more TO Climate Week events running June 1-7 at https://www.tocw.ca/events. Food-related events include:

Tour of etobiGrow vertical farms

Grow Food. Grow Community. Grow Climate Resilience hands-on community garden session with Thorncliffe Park Urban Farmers

Free screening of Groundswell (regenerative ag & climate)

Sustainalicious featuring climate-friendly menu items at restaurants

Growing the Future with Connor Tidd of Just Vertical

Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass book club

Food: the Other Big Climate Lever 

Events are filling up fast!

Rhonda Teitel-Payne (she/her)

Co-coordinator

Toronto Urban Growers

www.torontourbangrowers.org

@TOurbangrowers #iGrowTO