Connect with food action this World Food Day

Today is World Food Day Today we acknowledge World Food Day, which takes place annually on October 16. World Food Day promotes awareness of hunger and action for the future of food, people, and the planet. What can you do to connect locally with food action? Check out what’s happening in your neighbourhood over at […]

Upcoming Gardening Workshops 2023

Join us for these upcoming gardening workshops! Click here to register All workshops are $10 each, or Pay-What-You-Can (even if that’s $0!). Everyone is welcome to attend! Watch this space: More workshops to come Click on the headings below for more information on each available workshop Canning/Preserving for Beginners (@ Just Food Community Farm, Wed, […]

In person: Composting at a Community Garden Scale

The Box Of Life is an Ottawa social enterprise that teaches people how to build healthy soil from their food scraps efficiently in small spaces. Creating good quality compost is both an art and a science, and good system and process design go a long way in making composting a seamless part of every garden. […]

Virtual Workshop: Planning for Permaculture

Plan permaculture into your garden. Join this workshop to explore the relationship between biodiversity, pest management, and permaculture. Bee will introduce permaculture topics and open the floor for questions! Meet the facilitator Brianne Vaillancourt is involved in permaculture and organic food production; emotional intelligence training and conscious community-building; spiritual practice and Whole Yoga. Brianne is […]

Virtual Workshop: Garden Succession Planning

Succession planting is a food growing technique you can apply to any growing space (pot or plot) to make maximum use of your garden soil and also of the length of the Ottawa growing season. The presentation will answer the question “why plan garden successions”, as well as provide practical advice on what food plants […]

Virtual Workshop: Growing with Culture

Just Food is pleased to bring together a very exciting knowledge sharing workshop on growing with culture. Please join Celeste Smith and Michaela Cruz for a personal and deeply important conversation about connections between culture and growing. Meet the facilitators Celeste Smith (she/her) is Oneida from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. She isa […]

Virtual Workshop: Building soil health and minimum tillage practices

In this workshop, Mat will share some of the Biointensive tools and techniques he uses on his farm. The techniques encourage a thriving ecosystem of bacteria and fungi in the soil which helps to improve fertility and crop health. Meet the facilitator Mat has been farming in Ottawa for the past 5 years, growing a […]

In-person: How to start, grow, and care for strong seedlings!

In partnership with Capital Greens, we’re hosting this workshop where you’ll learn how to get nearly 100% germination, and how to create the ideal conditions for your seedlings to grow into strong, healthy, high-yielding vegetable crops, right in your own home!  Come join us in the greenhouse where we will begin our workshop with a […]

Virtual Workshop: How to start, grow, and care for strong seedlings!

In partnership with Capital Greens, we’re hosting this workshop where you’ll learn how to get nearly 100% germination, and how to create the ideal conditions for your seedlings to grow into strong, healthy, high-yielding vegetable crops, right in your own home!  Join us online where we will begin our workshop with a ~30 minute “classroom […]

In-person: How to start, grow, and care for strong seedlings!

In partnership with Capital Greens, we’re hosting this workshop where you’ll learn how to get nearly 100% germination, and how to create the ideal conditions for your seedlings to grow into strong, healthy, high-yielding vegetable crops, right in your own home! Come join us in the greenhouse where we will begin our workshop with a […]