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DETAILED SUMMIT

AGENDAAs of August 10, 2012 (subject to change without notice)

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2/31Urban Agriculture Summit Toronto, ON, Canada To register go to: www.urbanagsummit.org, Agenda as of August 10, 2012 (subject to change) 1

IntroductionAround the world people are growing food in cities! From August 15 to 18, the 2012 Urban Agriculture Summit will bring together a diversity of

people that are making it happen - design professionals, community groups, social housing advocates, tenants and developers, educators, planners

homeowners, urban growers and others - to share what is working, and to discover what is possible.

HotelSummit organizers are pleased to announce a preferred rate for rooms at the Delta Chelsea Hotel, located one block from the main Summit venue

Ryerson University and in the heart of downtown Toronto.

Delta Chelsea: 33 Gerrard Street West. Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1Z4

Single and Double Rooms are available for $139; $159 for triple occupancy and a $179 quad rate. All rates are PLUS applicable taxes. Delegates are

responsible for making their own individual reservations. Call the Reservations Department at 1-800- CHELSEA (1-800-243-5732) within North

America and identify yourself as being with the Group 2012 Urban Agriculture Summit. Organizers suggest you call prior to August 3, 2012 in order

to qualify for the group rate and ensure availability. Visithttp://urbanagsummit.org/index.php/homepage/hotelfor more information.

For more information and to register please go to:

www.urbanagsummit.org

The Urban Agriculture Summit will take place at:

Registration Desk will be at the Ryerson Student Campus Centre: 55 Gould St., Toronto, ON M5B 1E9
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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 15 RYERSON UNIVERSTY

Green Roof Professionals (GRP) can earn up to 12.25 Continuing Education Units (CEU) by attending the Urban Agriculture Summit.

7:00 AM8:00 PM Summit Registration Desks Opens (STUDENT CAMPUS CENTRE)

8:30 AM4:15 PMPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES AND SPECIAL SKILLS/TRAINING WORKSHOPS

(SEE DETAILS BELOW)

8:30 AM5:00 PM TOURS AND OFF-SITE WORKSHOPS (SEE DETAILS BELOW)

6:30 PM8:00 PM OPENING CEREMONY AND WELCOMING ADDRESS

8:30 AM12 NOONMORNING HALF DAY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES AND SPECIAL SKILLS/TRAINING

WORKSHOPS (RYERSON UNIVERSITY)

Room: ARC 300E

Integrated Water Management for Buildings and Sites

Jeffrey L. Bruce, GRP, FASLA, LEED, ASIC, President, Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company, Chair, Green Roofs forHealthy Cities

Developed jointly by GRHC andAmerican Society of Irrigation Consultants (ASIC)committee members, this course provides technica

and economic information on the design and performance of a fully integrated site and building water management system based on

the Net Zero Water concept. This approach promises to significantly reduce the consumption of potable water in buildings, reduce

discharge to municipal waste water systems, and save on municipal energy by reducing the amount of potable water treated at

municipal facilities. The recognition of the connection between water management and energy conservation is emerging as a new

opportunity in integrated management systems. Key concepts and terminology are illustrated by case studies and demonstration

projects which identify issues and opportunities associated with costs and benefits, design and engineering practices, installation and

maintenance requirements, and efficiency and performance of a fully functional integrated site and building water management system

based on the Net Zero Water concept.

Includes a 98-page course manual.

This course is approved by GBCI, LA CES, OAA and GRHC for continuing education/professional development hours.

Price: $175 for Delegates and $199 for Non-delegates (Half Day Professional Development Course on August 15th

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Room: ARC 202

Make Money as an Urban Farmer with SPIN-FarmingCurtis Stone, owner/operator Green City Acres, Kelowna BC

Trainer Bio: A musician turned urban farmer, Curtis Stone is the owner/operator of Green City Acres, an urban farm based out o

Kelowna, BC. Green City Acres farms under an acre of land spread out amongst seven different urban plots to grow vegetables fo

various direct consumer markets throughout Kelowna. All transport is accomplished using only bicycles and custom built trailers. Having

no prior experience as a farmer or gardener, Curtis started his farm simply out of a desire to be more autonomous, and to make a livin

by the triple bottom line principle. His farm has now completed two successful seasons, employs one other person full time, and is still

growing. During his off-season, Curtis works as a public speaker, teacher, and consultant, sharing his story and inspiring a new

generation of farmers.Course Description: In this course you will learn the basics of SPIN (small plot intensive) Farming, a franchise-like vegetable farming

system that makes it possible to earn $50,000+gross from a half acre.

Learning Objectives:

1. How to start an income producing farm in the city without huge investment and without having to own any land

2. How to allocate and work a sub-acre land base to get maximum yields and income

3. How to manage the workflow of an owner/operated farm

4. How to identify and choose sales channels

5. How to set pricing strategies for your produce

Includes: SPIN-Farming Basics manual

Price: $175 for Delegates and $199 for Non-delegates (Half Day Workshop on August 15th

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Room: ARC 400H Season Extension: Cold Frame Design And Building TechniquesKim Fox, Research Assistant, Center for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson University, and Christopher

Wong, Co-Founder, Young Urban Farmers

Come learn how to extend your growing season using cold frames!

In this interactive workshop, participants will learn hands-on how to design and build a cold frame to grow fresh produce through all

four seasons. Three different styles of cold frames will be demonstrated including using upcycled materials, using new materials

commonly found at home-improvement stores, and building a commercial model cold frame. Participants will also learn best practices

in choosing plants for the cold frame, managing and caring for the plants, and planning it into the garden rotation.

The Building workshop will be led by Christopher Wong, co-founder of Young Urban Farmers, a business that is devoted to helpingpeople grow and enjoy the freshest produce from their own property. He is also the co-founder of Cultivate Toronto, a non-profit

organization that runs a community shared agriculture program using residential yards in Toronto. Chris is active in the local food

community as a member of the Toronto Food Policy Council, the Toronto Youth Food Policy Council, and the Greater Toronto Area

Agricultural Action Committee. He aims to make urban farming fun, simple, and enjoyable.


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Room: ARC 200A Integrated Urban HomesteadPhil Ferraro, GRP, Certified Permaculture Designer, Director, Atlantic Living Walls/Fortune Bay Eco-Design

Turn an urban homestead into an integrated and sustainable, social enterprise. Well discuss technologies, such as artificial lights, solar

greenhouses, living walls, rooftop gardens and edible landscaping to maximize yields and minimize space. Participants will design their

urban homestead, discuss ideas for creating a social enterprise and network on ways to begin implementation of their plans.


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12:30 PM4:15 PMAFTERNOON HALF DAY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES AND SPECIAL SKILLS/TRAINING

WORKSHOPS (RYERSON UNIVERESITY)

Compost 101: Growing Power StyleWill Allen, Chief Executive Officer, Growing Power

Will Allen, foremost compost guru of the US food movement will be providing a hands on vermicomposting workshop using red wiggler

worms and recycled food waste, similar to the sessions he provides at Growing Power in Milwaukee. Will explains how he builds

compost cells, how he sources recycled food waste, farm waste, brewery waste, and coffee grinds. Bread, dairy, or meat products are

not included in his compost method, in which living systems are composed of carbon residue, microorganisms, minerals, and red

wiggler worms. The resulting material is remarkably fertile, giving plants access to the nutrients needed for both plant growth and for

human nutrition. The closed-loop ecological approach to this system allows for the cleanup of contaminants in the soil, for digestion

and transformation of food waste, and for the production of fertilizer that is far more effective than chemical treatments. The high

microbial count in Will Allen's Compost system helps fight off soil disease and breaks down food waste rapidly, keeping plants strong

and healthy.


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Room: ARC 200A

Building Municipal Urban Agriculture Policy ChangeErika Allen, Chicago and National Outreach Manager, Growing Power

Erika Allen will lead a training session on how to build critical mass and supportive policies with your municipal government to support

urban agriculture and community operated food systems. She will focus on her Chicago experience from former Mayor Richard M.

Daley to current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Erika Allen is Chicago and National Projects Director for Growing Power and is headquartered in Chicago, IL. As the daughter of Will

Allen, she has a small farm agricultural background and experience. She spent her formative years, involved in all aspects of farm

management from transplanting seedlings to managing farm stands and farmers markets. Ms. Allen has received her BFA from the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago and recently received her MA in art therapy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Years ofexperience working in urban communities with art education and social service have brought her full circle back to her farming roots.

Integrating the creative and therapeutic techniques with food security and community development have enabled Ms. Allen to

establish seven urban agriculture and food system projects in Chicago. Her specialties include project planning, community food

systems, design and direct marketing training. Supporting limited resource producers to strengthen their farm businesses and working

in partnerships to create healthy and diverse food options in inner city and rural communities, Ms. Allen was an awardee for the

Chicago Tribunes Good Eating Award in 2006 and was honored by Family Focus in 2007 for her work in community food systems. I n

2009, Womens Environmental Institute (WEI) honored Erika as a Mother ofthe Environment for Minneapolis-St. Paul. She is also a Post

Carbon Institute Fellow. Erika is currently serving on the Illinois Food, Farms and Jobs Act Council appointed by Illinois Governor Quinn

and most recently served on new Chicago Mayor - Rahm Emmanuels transition team Energy, Environment and Public Space

Committee. She is the proud mother of Emiliano ayo her toddler.


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Room: ARC 202

Introduction to Rooftop Agriculture CourseBen Flanner, Head Farmer, President, Brooklyn Grange

Learn about multiple approaches to growing food on rooftops through design and maintenance principles, and case studies drawn from

across North America. This course:

Familiarizes participants with the diversity of physical applications of urban agriculture and the growing technologies that apply.

Explores the social, environmental and economic benefits of urban agriculture and rooftop farming.

Describes the governance, personnel and economic options for implementing urban agriculture and rooftop farming systems and

operations.

Examines the conditions that lead to a successful urban agriculture project.

Identifies strategies for overcoming common challenges associated with developing an urban agriculture/rooftop farming project.

Describes basic installation and maintenance principles.

Includes an 85-page course manual.

This course is approved by LA CES, OAA, and GRHC for continuing education/professional development hours.


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Room: ARC 400H A to Z of Container Gardening WorkshopJohanne Daoust, Urban Rooftop Vegetable Gardener; Galle Janvier, Project Coordinator, Alternatives &

Zora Ignjatovic, Gardener, Permaculturist, and Community Gardener

These three container gardening experts will present innovative ways to support groups in their out-of-soil growing ventures.

Participants will learn how to create a sub-irrigated planter (SIPs) for edible plants. Plants love SIPs and they are perfect for roofs,

balconies, patios, window sills, drive-ways, community gardens, school yards, senior citizen homes, and raised beds. Workshop

participants will also learn how to create a low cost, organic, out-of soil ready to grow kit created by Alternatives Montreal that ishighly in demand.

Johanne Daoust is a design educator and an urban rooftop vegetable gardener. Her garden has been described as a first class example

of both urban food productivity and creative applied research. An advocate for growing food safely in an urban setting she uses the

square foot, raised bed method along with sub-irrigated planters (SIPs) to grow safe, sustainable and edible vegetables.

Galle Javier has a multidisciplinary profile. She has studied environmental design, urban planning and international project

management. She also has practical experience in ecological horticulture and permaculture. Since 2007, she has been working at

Alternatives on different projects. She has actively contributed to the urban agriculture project of roof gardens, an initiative that

encourages citizen participation in the development of new community, edible, and green spaces. In recent years, Galle has

coordinated and participated in food security projects in African and Latin American countries and worked for other predominent

international NGOs.

Zora Ignjatovic, B.Sc. Agriculture, is Torontos lifelong activist in the area ofurban agriculture and food security. Passionate about

sharing knowledge, stories and good food, Zora follows her heart in her work as a freelance gardener, consultant and forager. Her

calling is rooted in her early experiences growing and learning from her grandmother Sophia and from deep understanding of the

broken food system. Over the years, she has worked with TorontoPermacultureProject, Carrot Common Green Roof Project,

FoodShare, Toronto Green Community, Live Green, Access Alliance, South Riverdale Health Center, Jackman school garden, and New

Horizons seniors garden. In these and other projects, Zora searches for ways to help make our dreams of a resilient society c ome true

by helping communities to accept and celebrate diversity, bring joy to life, and create abundance and sustainability.


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8:30 AM12:30 PM MORNING - HALF DAY TOURS AND OFF-SITE WORKSHOPSSign up now because space is limited. See additional tours on Saturday.

Growing Food, Growing Health Rooftop Garden and Greenhouse TourKelly Hashemi, Agency Events and Communications Coordinator, Native Child and Family Services of

Toronto; Liz Curran, YIMBY/Global Roots Garden Coordinator, The Stop Community Food Centre; Kristin

Howe, Greenhouse Coordinator, The Stop Community Food Centre; Alex Lamoureux, Family Clinician,Canadian Mental Health Association

The Native Child and Family Services Toronto's roof is a true green roof and is an important element in the presentation of the

centre's physical plant. Being recognized stewards of the land, the community were keen to incorporate the best environment al

design and technology to not only offset the fact that the location is a heat island in the heart of Toronto, but also to acknowledge a

commitment to holding a strong and positive relationship to the earth. The roof and what is planted on it reinforces this. Traditional

Anishnaabe medicines such as cedar, sweet grass and sage are planted and the core natural metaphors of Haudenosaunee culture, the

three sisters, corn, beans and squash, are not only planted but are done so in the traditional manner. The key feature of the roof is the

Healing Lodge. This Lodge breaks from many traditions but at its core represents a chance to bring ceremony and healing to people in

the City.

Community food production sites can integrate objectives as diverse as food security, health promotion and community building. Learn

how The Stop Community Food Centre and the Canadian Mental Health Association structure their programs to help participants learn

how to grow food for themselves and their community while developing social support networks and improving mental and physical



health outcomes. The tour will visit The Stops gardens, greenhouse and compost facility, followed by a discussion of program models,

best practices and challenges. Tour participants are encouraged to bring their own questions and opportunities.

Price: $50 for Delegates and $75 for Non-delegates (Half Day Tour on August 15th

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Departing from / returning to Ryerson University (SCC Lobby). Transit fare (return) provided.

Bendale B.T.I. field. Photo

courtesy of Meredith

Hayes

Say Yes to School Grown Food: Whole 9 YardsMeredith Hayes Student Nutrition and School Program Senior Manager, FoodShare; Justin Nadeau School

Food Garden Coordinator, FoodShare; James Davis, School Food Innovations Coordinator, FoodShare

In this half day field trip to Bendale Business and Technical Institute (B.T.I.)s school based market garden participants wi ll learn abou

FoodShares Whole 9 Yards project which demonstrates innovative and replicable approaches to growing, harvesting, processing and

incorporating large volumes of fresh produce into schools. The Whole 9 Yards project showcases some of the Field to Table Sch ools

staff, Justin Nadeau and James Davis, incredible innovations and building skills with school friendly designs for indoor and outdoor food

production and processing including classroom to cafeteria aquaponics systems, bicycle powered blenders, cold frames, harvest carts

living salad bars and much more.

Price: $50 for Delegates and $75 for Non-delegates (Half Day Off-site Workshop on August 15th

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1:00 PM5:00 PM HALF DAY TOURS AND OFF-SITE WORKSHOPS

Downtown Financial District Local Food Tour (Fairmont Royal York Rooftop Garden,

Beekeeping, and ING Direct Farmers Market)Melanie Coates, Head Beekeeper, The Fairmont Royal York; Marjorie Mason, Author, Garden Designer,

Mason Hogue Gardens; Collin Thornton, Executive Chef, The Fairmont Royal York; Melissa Berney,

Education Committee Member, Toronto Beekeepers Co-operative; Aruna Handa, Founder and CEO,

Alimentary Initiatives

Peruse the local food market at ING DIRECT Caf and taste Toronto! Pick up something for lunch or for later, and then learn about

Alimentary Initiatives pilot distribution system for local food: the Toronto Office Markets program. Next stop will be a private behind-

the-scenes guided tour of Fairmont Royal Yorks pioneering rooftop garden and apiary project.

Locations included: ING Direct Farmers Market and Fairmont Royal York Rooftop Garden, Beekeeping

Price: $50 for Delegates and $75 for Non-delegates (Half Day Tour on August 15th

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Edible Landscapes in Schools WorkshopHeidi Campbell, Senior Landscape FDesigner, Evergreen & Aimee Carson, Community Development

Manager, Evergreen

This workshop will take participants through the process of working collaboratively (with school boards, parents and teachers) to create

food gardens on school grounds. A tour of the food garden projects at the award-winning Evergreen Brickworks will be followed by an

information session and hands on experiential activity related to food growing on school grounds.

Price: $50 for Delegates and $75 for Non-delegates (Half Day Off-site Workshop on August 15th

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6:30 PM8:30 PM OPENING CEREMONY AND WELCOMING ADDRESS (RECEPTION FOR DELEGATES at FOODSHARE)

Urban Agriculture Summit Opening Reception & CelebrationAll delegates, partners and VIP's will come together at FoodShare to enjoy local food and refreshments and celebrate the

opening of the first Urban Agriculture Summit in Toronto.

Location: FoodShare, 90 Croatia St., near Dufferin Street and Bloor Street West



By TTC (Public Transit):At Dundas Subway station, take the Yonge Line northbound to Bloor Station; transfer to westbound subway; exit at Dufferin station; walk one block west to Brock St.

turn south (left) on Brock and walk down one block to the school on the corner of Brock and Croatia. (Travel time: 20 - 30 mins)

THURSDAY AUGUST 16 URBAN AGRICULTURE SUMMIT

7:00 AM6:00 PM ON-SITE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION (SCC-Lobby)

8:30 AM10:00 AM OPENING KEYNOTE (TRS10-67)

Master of Ceremonies: Debbie Field, Executive Director, FoodShareDebbie is the executive director of the award winning non-profit organization, FoodShare Toronto. FoodShare works

with multiple communities to improve access to affordable, healthy food through sustainable food programs. FoodShare

has launched some of Canadas most successful social enterprises including the Good Food Box, the Toronto Kitchen

Incubator, Field to Table Catering, Green Jobs and Student Nutrition programs.

Dr. Fiona Yeudall, School of Nutrition, Ryerson University

Fiona Yeudall is an Assistant Professor in Ryersons School of Nutrit ion and a faculty associate in the Centre for Studies in

Food Security. Fionas extensive work and research experience relating to nutrition and food security in Canada, Malawi,

and Uganda combine with a particular interest in evaluating the effectiveness of food-based interventions and practices,

such as urban gardening, in improving food security. In addition to being a registered dietician, Fiona holds a PhD (Otago

in human nutrition.

Joe Lobko,OAA, FRAIC, LEED AP BD+C, Partner, DTAH

With over 30 years of experience as an architect and urban designer, Joe has a broad range of experience on public and

private developments with particular emphasis on urban design, adaptive reuse and the non-profit sector. In 2006, he

joined DTAH as a partner with the merger of his practice Joe Lobko Architect, and in the same year he received an urban

leadership award from the Canadian Urban Institute and became a fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

Volunteer efforts include serving on the Board of Directors for ArtsBuild Ontario, past chair of the Toronto Society of

Architects, and as a current member of the City of Toronto Design Review Panel.

Notable award-winning projects include leading the design of renewal and restoration projects such as Artscape

Wychwood Barns and Evergreen Brick Works; the planning and urban design of Waterfront Torontos West Don Lands

community (with UDA); the LArche Dayspring Chapel; Artscapes first legal live/work project in Toronto; the


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competition-winning Sims Square office building adjacent to Burlingtons City Hall; and the Fort York Transitional

Residence.

Will Allen, Chief Executive Officer, Growing PowerWill Allen, son of a sharecropper, former professional basketball player, ex-corporate sales leader, and longtime farmer,

have become recognized as among the preeminent thinkers of our time on agriculture and food policy. The founder and

CEO ofGrowing Power Inc., a farm and community food center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Allen is widely considered the

leading authority in the expanding field of urban agriculture. At Growing Power and in community food projects across

the nation and around the world, Allen promotes the belief that all people, regardless of their economic circumstances,

should have access to fresh, safe, affordable and nutritious foods at all times. Using methods he has developed over a

lifetime, Allen trains community members to become community farmers, assuring them a secure source of good food

without regard to political or economic forces. In 2008 Mr. Allen received the prestigious MacArthur "Genius grant" for

his efforts to promote urban sustainable food systems. Later, in 2010 Mr. Allen joined First Lady Michelle Obama as she

launched the White Houses Lets Move campaign to address issues affecting American youth and the risk of obesity

and later that year was also recognized as one of TIME magazines 100 Most Influential People in the World. Since then,

Mr. Allen has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award in

2011 and the NCAA Theodore Roosevelt Award in 2012, which is the highest award the National Collegiate Athletic

Association can bestow on a former collegiate athlete.

10:00 AM10:30 AM COFFEE BREAK

10:30 AM12 NOON CONCURRENT SESSION 1

COMMUNITY

BUILDING & SOCIAL

HOUSING

DESIGN &

INFRASTRUCTURE

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

& BUSINESS

DEVELOPMENT

HOW TO, SKILLS, &

TECHNOLOGY

ECOLOGY &

LANDSCAPE

PLANNING & POLICY

Exploring urban

agricultures

potential for

community building

and increased food

security

Leading-edge

architectural and

landscape design,

amazing projects, and

innovative

infrastructure for

small & large-scale

urban agriculture

production

Building the business

case and value chain:

the economics,

financing, marketing

and management

practice of for-profit

and not-for-profit

urban agriculture

From rooftop gardens

to backyard chickens:

Innovative

technologies,

practical skills and

engineering solutions

supporting and

growing urbanagricultural

production

City-building from the

ground up: Urban

Agriculture projects,

ideas and initiatives

rooted in

communities across

North America and

around the world

Scaling up urban

agriculture:

Supportive programs,

policies and

governance models to

grow city-based food

production

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SESSION 1: COMMUNITY BUILDING & SOCIAL HOUSING Training New Farmers

Training Tomorrows Urban Farmers

Since 2000, Everdale has assisted almost 100 new farmers in launching their farm enterprises. More and more of these new farmers are choosing to farm in the city.

Learn about how Everdales Farmers Growing Farmers training programs are being brought into the city to help grow a new generation of urban farmers. Meet some

of Everdale's graduate-farmers.

Presenter: Gavin Dandy, Farm Director, Everdale Environmental Learning Centre

Co-founder of Everdale, a teaching farm that provides hands-on, solution-based food and farming education to build and engage healthy local communities. He has

been working as a farmer and farming educator since 1996.

Concordia City Farm: The Urban Agriculture School Model

Present our model for an urban agriculture school, addressing the problems and success that we have experienced along the way.

Presenter: Marcus Lobb, Concordia Greenhouse Coordinator, Concordia University

Marcus Lobb, of Montreal, coordinates Concordia Universitys City Farm School, an eight month long urban agriculture training program that focuses on growing food

in the city with an emphasis on the development of community inspired by food sovereignty principles.

Moderator: Carolyn Bailey, Urban Agriculture Program Manager, EcoSource


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SESSION 1: DESIGN & INFRASTRUCTURE From Backyard Hobby to Resilience to Transformation: Urban Agriculture and

Cities as seen from The Netherlands

Along with sustainable growing methods and multifunctional agriculture, city food production is a third wave reconnecting food to nature and society. For urban

food and farming to fully express and embody city vitality, we need new tools and attitudes as well as renewed entrepreneurs, citizens, politicians and scientists.

Using an integral framework and the perspective of cradle to cradle principles adopted by the city of Almere, and backed by the experiences of the Dutch and

European urban food and green movement, Gaston will outline next steps for a growing generation of city food producers, consumers and facilitators.

Presenter: Gaston Remmers Chair Eco-Effective Entrepreneurship in Urban Areas, CAH Almere University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

Gaston is a passionate practitioner and researcher of evolutionary regional development. He designs and facilitates complex multistakeholder processes involving

both spatial planning and socio-economic development. He worked in several European and Latin-American countries, and was engaged in multiple EU research

projects over the past 20 years. He is especially gifted in connecting leadership at different scales (citizens, entrepreneurs, local, regional, national). Over the past

decade, he did extensive work reframing and reconnecting the urban and the rural domain, mainly through Communities of Practice and facilitating new integral

entrepreneurship. He lives in Amsterdam, engaging in and experiencing first hand the need for vitalizing city life through agriculture and food. He holds a PhD in rural

sociology and an MSc in agro-ecology. His Chair at CAH Almere co-creates with local and (inter-)national partners new urban food and farming business models

inspired by Cradle to cradle, and nurtures a culture that enables these new models to emerge. To that extent, the Almere Development Centre for Urban Agriculture

was recently created, the first of its kind in the country.

Introduction presented byHans Horbach, Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

SESSION 1: SOCIAL ENTERPRISE & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT How Are Developers Supporting Agriculture?

Panelist:

Martin Blake, Vice President, Daniels Corporation

Martin Blake, Vice President of the GTA based The Daniels Corporation, is a developer who is actively involved in the creation of housing within the GTA, with a

specific interest in environmental and affordable housing within Toronto. As a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity Toronto for the past 16 years, Blake also serves as

the current Chair on the HFHT Board of Directors. Blakes role, on behalf of The Daniels Corporation, includes management of the Revitalization of Regent Park, whichis being directed in a partnership with Toronto Community Housing. The 15-year Revitalization represents a leading model for building a complete, mixed community

through ongoing community engagement and the creation of social development opportunities, as well as a revitalization of physical infrastructure.

Mazyar Mortazavi, Principal and Managing Partner, TAS Designbuild

Margaret Zeidler, President, Urbanspace Property Group

Moderator: Margaret Walton, MCIP RPP, Partner, Planscape

SESSION 1: HOW TO, SKILLS, & TECHNOLOGY Rooftop Food Production

This session has been successfully approved by GBCI for 1.5 CE Hours

Seed to Plate: Rooftop Production Strategies

This lecture highlights the four leading rooftop production methods: container gardening, raised bed production, row farming, and hydroponics. The talk introduces

attendees to the best methods for each site, with considerations of building type, building size, user group, and intent. Case studies from around the country reveal

the physicality of these very real spaces.Presenter: Lauren Mandel, MLA, Project Manager + Rooftop Agriculture Specialist, Roofmeadow (formerly Roofscapes, Inc.)

Lauren Mandel is a Project Manager and Rooftop Agriculture Specialist at Roofmeadow (formerly Roofscapes). At Roofmeadow, Lauren designs green roofs, oversees

construction, and manages rooftop farm projects. She blogs about rooftop agriculture at eatupag.wordpress.com, and is writing a book series on the subject, called

Eat Up. Lauren has a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and is one of the leading experts on rooftop agriculture in the U.S.

Rooftops For Food Production

How to go about choosing, designing and implementing a rooftop garden / green roof for food production. Presentation would include physical and regulatory

requirements for occupying a rooftop, implications of roof greening on the urban environment and local food security, as well as discussions of specific requirements

for growing food plants, using photographic examples of existing food producing roofs throughout North America.

Presenter: Monica Kuhn, Architect, GRP, Monica E. Kuhn, Architect Inc.

Monica Kuhn is an architect, a founding member of Torontos Rooftop Gardens Resource Group, and a past board member of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities. She is

an Accredited Green Roof Professional, has co-authored several research papers on green roof technology, and has taught and lectured throughout North America on

urban greening issues and Permaculture. She has a roof garden on her home and a green roof on her office.

Introduction to Integrated Water Management for Buildings and Sites

Many cities are already facing water shortages that can be an impediment to urban agriculture and other forms of green infrastructure. This presentation will

introduce the design principles associated with integrated site and building water management with a goal of working towards Net Zero Water consumption.

Presenter: Jeffrey L. Bruce, FASLA, GRP, President, Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company

In addition to being the Chair of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities and the Incoming President of the American Society of Irrigation Consultants, Jeffrey Bruce is owner of

Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company (JBC). Founded in 1986, JBC provides highly specialized technical support to many of the nations leading architectural and landscape

architectural firms on a variety of project profiles including engineered soils, green roof technologies, urban agronomy, performance sports turf, and irrigation

engineering. Mr. Bruce has received over 60 separate design and leadership awards. Award winning projects of his firm, Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company, have been

published 85 times. Licensed to practice in 20 states, he has served as an invited lecturer, visiting critic, and speaker at numerous conferences and trade shows.

Moderator: Cathy Tafler, B.Arch, OAA, Tafler Rylett Architects


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SESSION 1: ECOLOGY & LANDSCAPE Closing the Loop

Community Composting in Ontario

We would like to review the concept of Community Composting and the policies that pertain to it within the Ontario context. We would like to share our experience

with small-mid scale community composting and our knowledge of the regulations affecting those operations as in Ontario as compared with those in other

jurisdictions

Co-Presenter: Carolyn Young, Program Coordinator, Sustain Ontario

Carolyn Young is the program coordinator from Sustain Ontario, the alliance for healthy food and farming. Formerly, she helped to coordinate the Stop Community

Food Centres community composting demonstration and has helped bring together community composters to request an exemption from the MOE regulations

pertaining to compost.

Co-Presenter: Michael Nevin, Compost Coordinator, FoodShare Toronto

Mike has been involved with Food Share's composting for over 10 years and composting in his housing co-op for more than 20 years.Interested in waste reduction, resource conservation and environmental issues, he has been a compost information volunteer with Toronto's

Waste Watchers at Toronto's Environment Days. When not wielding the composting pitchfork, Mike likes reading, world politics and opera.

He lives with a very demanding cat in Bain Co-op where he is active on committees. His learning goals include, basic gardening lore, worm composting, more

languages and more history and more science.

Co-Presenter: Marlee Kohn, Former Masters of Environmental Studies Student

Marlee Kohn completed a Masters in Environmental Studies (MES) with a specialization in waste management from York University in 2011. She currently works as

an environmental program manager at Summerhill Group, located in Toronto, Ontario. In 2010, Marlee joined a group of advocates for the development of

community composting across Ontario; she has been involved in the research of the various examples of programs across North America and the environmental

policies that affect community composting.

Nourished Neighbourhoods: An Australian Approach to Localized Urban Agriculture and Closing the Food Waste Loop

This session will outline the current efforts in Melbourne, Australia to utilize highly accessible urban agriculture and community composting strategies to achieve

greater food security, broader community resiliency/cohesion, and reduced/recaptured food waste on the neighbourhood level.

Particularly, this session will explore the possibilities existing at the intersections of multi-stakeholder relationships to utilize food and waste recapture to achieve

multiple objectives around public health, sustainability, and community development.

Demonstrating a unique partnership between government, non-profit, and private organizations, this session presents a mixture of proven on-the-ground methods

for developing and implementing urban agriculture and community composting initiatives collaboratively throughout all partner spheres, as well as approaches to

designing/visioning future evolutions and expansions.

Finally, this session will offer key Melbourne insights and lessons to drive a design charrette regarding the emergence of closed neighbourhood food loops amid

significant urban densification, population diversification and expansion, and tensions between rising affluence and social inequity.

Co-Presenter: Peter Huff, Urban Agriculture Facilitator, City of Yarra, and Community Food Systems Project Worker, Cultivating Community

Pete Huff is a regenerative agriculture designer and educator from California, currently working Australia in local government and non-profit sectors. Pete has over

seven years of experience with sustainability and food systems initiatives in rural and urban spheres, with a current focus on integrating food into regional and urban

planning.

Co-Presenter: Tom Gooch, Co-Founder, Office of Other Spaces

Focused on Strategic Landscape Adaptation, Ecological Urbanism & Landscape Architecture.

Moderator: Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist, Principal, Biochar Consulting (Canada)

SESSION 1: PLANNING & POLICY Best Practices from Chicago Paris, London and New York

A Tale of Two Edible Cities: 19th-century Paris and London 2012

Modern urban agricultural techniques evolved from the walled gardens of medieval Paris. The combination of techniques, now known as French intensive agriculture

reached its apogee during the second half of the 19th century. At this time, when the population of the city doubled from one million to two, an estimated 8500

urban farmers worked 3500 hectares, or 1/6th of the area of the city at the time, for urban food production. While urban food production saw a serious decline in the

20th century, Paris seems to be re-greening itself now. In preparation for the London Olympic Games, London announced an ambitious city-supported initiative,

Capital Growth, to create 2012 new food growing spaces by the 2012 games. This would be a 20-minute narrated slideshow of photographs / images illustrating the

urban agriculture conditions, techniques, models, and innovation that made Paris the birthplace of modern urban agriculture in the mid-19th century, as well as

images from current-day London as it comes to the culmination of its Capital Growth initiative that proposed 2012 new growing spaces by 2012 for the London

Olympic Games. It would follow the model of a TED talk with rich visuals of historical and contemporary examples of best practices in urban food production, with an

emphasis on innovative and dynamic ideas that can be implemented in most communities today.

Presenter: Jennifer Cockrall-King, Author of Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution (Prometheus Books, 2012), Independent food

writer

Jennifer Cockrall-King is an award-winning Canadian food writer based in Edmonton, Alberta, and Naramata, British Columbia. Food and the City: Urban Agriculture

and The New Food Revolution is the result of four years of travelling to cities at the forefront of integrating food production into their urban landscapes. Published in

Canada, the US and the UK in February 2012 by Prometheus Books (Amherst, NY), Food and the City received the 2011 Dave Greber Freelance Book Award, a

Canadian national award that recognizes excellence in social justice writing.

Healthy Food Chicago

The City of Chicago is developing a healthy food plan. The Healthy Food Chicago plan focuses improving the health of Chicago residents and incorporating food

related issues into local planning projects... The plan includes strategies that:

increase the production and distribution of healthy food;

improve access to healthier food for Chicago residents;

build demand and increase consumption of healthy food; and,

create opportunities for job creation and economic development.

The Healthy Food Chicago plan is being developed through a partnership that includes the City of Chicago Departments of Housing and Economic Development,

Public Health, Family and Support Services, the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC) and many stakeholders that include individuals and


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organizations representing health and food related is-sues. The plan will go before the Chicago Plan Commission for adoption in fall of 2012.

Presenter: Bradley Roback, Coordinator of Economic Development, City of Chicago

Bradley works in the City of Chicago, Department of Housing and Economic Development, Open Space and Sustainability Division. In his role with HED, Bradley

focuses on food policy and incorporating food related issues into city and neighbourhood planning projects.

Innovative Urban Agriculture Policy: Lessons from New York City

Cities are attempting to address emerging forms of urban agriculture, including gardening and farming at an increased scale, new types of rooftop and commercial

farms and other forms of building-integrated agriculture, temporary and flexible farming projects, the growth of animal husbandry and beekeeping, and the use of

diverse growing technologies. This effort is underway in New York, a city that has adopted policies and programs to weave urban agriculture into existing buildings

and dispersed ground-level sites, and is beginning to fund urban agriculture as a green infrastructure. This presentation suggests lessons learned New York that can

be applied by other cities interested in strengthening urban agriculture.

Presenter: Nevin Cohen, Assistant Professor, The New SchoolNevin Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at The New School, where he teaches courses in urban food systems. He directs the Tishman

Environment and Design Center, the universitys interdisciplinary environmental research and education center. Dr. Cohens current research focuses on urban food

policy, particularly innovative planning strategies to support food production in the urban and peri-urban landscape, public policies to engage citizens in sustainable

food production, urban planning and food access, and civic agriculture in cities and suburbs. He has a PhD in Urban Planning from Rutgers University, a Masters in City

and Regional Planning from Berkeley, and a BA from Cornell.

Moderator: Andrea Winkler, Registered Professional Planner, Urban Strategies Incorporated

11:00 AM 6:30 PM TRADE SHOW (SCC115 ALUMNI ROOM)

Trade Show / Summit Exhibition

Today's top urban agriculture suppliers will present their latest products and services to Summit delegates. Visit, discuss and learn about how you can build your

project / business / connections in the sector. Delegates will be served lunch on the trade show floor.

12 NOON2:30 PM LUNCH ON TRADE SHOW FLOOR (SCC COURTYARD LOUNGE)

2:45 PM3:45 PM KEYNOTE - PAUL LIGHTFOOT (ENG103)

Scaling up Local Food: BrightFarms and the Business of Urban Agriculture

Paul Lightfoot, Chief Executive Officer, BrightFarmsPaul Lightfoot is the CEO of BrightFarms, which finances, builds and operates greenhouse farms at supermarkets, cutting

time, distance and cost from the produce supply chain.

Improving supply chains comes naturally to Paul, who spent nearly 10 years as the CEO of an enterprise software

company that improved the supply chains of major retailers and their suppliers. Paul is passionate about local food and

reducing the environmental impact of the produce supply chain.

Paul has a B.A. from Lehigh and a J.D. from Fordham Law. He is a board member of the Brennan Center for Justice. Paul

has been recognized by Chain Store Age magazine as a "Rising Star in Retail" in their annual 40 Under 40 awards, and is

the 2011 winner of the Young Presidents Organization CSR Award for Environmental Sustainable Business Practices. He

was a speaker at the TEDx conference Changing the Way We Eat.

Introduction presented by Karen Landman, PhD MCIP RPP, Associate Professor, MLA Program Coordinator, School of Environmental

Design & Rural Development, University of Guelph

4:00 PM 5:30 PM CONCURRENT SESSION 2

SESSION 2: COMMUNITY BUILDING & SOCIAL HOUSING Social Housing and Food Production

Exploring Urban Agricultures Potential For Community Building And Increased Food Security

From community gardens to farmers markets, food security initiatives are flourishing in social housing communities across Ontario. Social and Environmental

Enterprise Development (SEED) is a new initiative of Housing Services Corporation that will connect tenants with the networks, knowledge and resources required to

build and maintain community-led food initiatives. SEED builds resident capacity in both the hands-on growing and the community building skills required for resilient

food systems. The initiative also supports residents in connecting their food projects with social enterprise, increasing financial stability and building community socia

enterprises. The SEED pilot project in Alexandra Park launched in April 2012 and acts as a test lab and model for the possibilities of innovative, community-led food

security solutions in social housing across the province.

Presenter: Emily Martyn, Urban Agriculture & Local Food Specialist, Housing Services Corporation

Emily Martyn is a new addition to the Social Innovation Partnerships Team at Housing Services Corporation. As the Urban Agriculture and Local Food Specialist, she

works collaboratively with housing communities to envision and build community-led food and gardening initiatives. She oversees Social and Environmental

Enterprise Development (SEED), which engages residents to develop their food security initiatives into social enterprises that bring money back to their communities.

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Community gardens and urban agriculture have proven to be key components of community building and food education/access in social housing. TCHC has played a

leadership role in supporting the development of community gardens in social housing sites (mostly multi-residential buildings). FoodShare has partnered with TCHC

to support the start-up of a number of community gardens.

We will highlight the role of tenant communities in developing and leading community gardens; discuss experiences victories and challenges; future directions

Co-Presenter: Utcha Sawyers, Community Food Animation Coordinator, FoodShare

Co-Presenter: Len Mirander, Community Garden Coordinator, Lorna's One Love Community Garden and Gordonrige Place

Co-Presenter: Gilda C. Crawley, Manager, Community Animation, Community Health Unit, Toronto Community Housing

Gilda Crawley is Manager of a Green Community Animation Program and the Community Garden Strategy at Toronto Community Housing, Canada's largest social

housing provider in Canada. She provides opportunities for tenants to lead efforts to promote green behaviour among their fellow tenants through innovative and

ambitious social marketing techniques, efforts that have achieved real energy savings and changes in tenant attitudes toward conservation. She has also been

instrumental in developing and initiating a comprehensive garden strategy with partners that will have far reaching impacts for tenants and neighbourhoods. Ms.

Crawley has 24 years' experience in social housing, including front-line experience managing a large and diverse housing portfolio in downtown Toronto.

Moderator: Graeme Steward, Associate, ERA Architects

SESSION 2: DESIGN & INFRASTRUCTURE Emerging Production Landscapes

Design Your Common Space

We propose a discussion leading to a design charrette on the design of common space in community gardens. To get the discussion started we will present exemplary

uses of common spaces in community gardens in New York City and introduce the construction of the Gardenhaus, an affordable and self-built structure based on the

traditional casita design, that was designed in participation with gardeners for GreenThumb, the community garden program o f the New York City Department of

Parks and recreation. The goal of the presentation is to encourage participants to discuss, reflect and develop design concepts of common spaces in community

gardens.

Co-Presenter: Carolin Mees, Dipl. Ing. Architect

Carolin Mees, an architect and writer living in New York, is responsible for the design of the Gardenhaus, a self-built structure developed for NYC Park Departments

GreenThumb community garden program. She coordinates research related aspects of the program and is currently a research assistant at the University Hohenheim

Germany.Co-Presenter: Edie Stone, Director, GreenThumb

Edie Stone has been the Director of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreations GreenThumb community garden program since 2001. She has been

invited to present at many conferences, has consulted for community garden organizations internationally and is a widely published expert on community gardening.

Plan, Design and Implement Your Urban Market Farm

The option to change our approach to landscape can directly address our need to live more sustainably. Bio-mimicry (aka permaculture) can be used as a design

template for large and small, formal and naturalized, public and private eco-landscapes that are low cost, healthy, bio-productive and beautiful. Several innovative

projects will be discussed where food production is paramount, but which also support diverse green infrastructure and energy and material use efficiency.

Presenter: Brad Peterson, Landscape Architect and Environmental Management Consultant

Brad Peterson specializes in sustainable project Master Planning, permaculture site design and environmental management. He is based in Guelph and Owen Sound,

Ontario and consults across Canada and US on variety of urban and rural, large and small, public and private sustainable projects. Brad has over 20 years experience

which includes work with Black Creek Urban Market Farm, Cherryvale Organic Farm, Everdale Learning Centre and Whole Village near Caledon, ON.

Skyfarming: The Next Great Agricultural Revolution?

It is becoming increasingly understood that humanitys primary form of settlement and method of sustenance are functionally incompatible with a plane t of limited

natural resources. Modern cities exhibit decisively linear resource metabolisms where food, fresh water, energy, and other resource demands are imported fromgreat distances, consumed, and swiftly dispensed in a state the natural world cannot easily process. Likewise, the high-yield farming methods that support our cities

are characterized by their insatiable consumption of the limited reserves of freshwater, fossil-fuel energy, and soil.

This paper presents the argument that high-density, multi-storey urban agriculture also known as vertical farming could dramatically alter the way cities interact

with the external natural world. In their capacity as industrial primary producers, vertical farms could introduce greater metabolic diversity to urban systems, thus

encouraging the formation of a more cyclical, autonomous resource flow.

Presenter: Gordon Graff, Intern Architect, DIALOG

Gordon Graff is an intern architect at DIALOG. He has appeared in a variety of international publications and television programs for his work with the concept of

vertical farming.

Moderator: Dr. Mark Gorgolewski, Professor, Director of Building Science Graduate Programme, Ryerson University

SESSION 2: SOCIAL ENTERPRISE & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Community Development and Social Enterprise

Urban Agriculture and Local Food as Catalysts for Community Development in Chicago

The urban agriculture movement is booming in Chicago. Many activists in this movement see the crucial connection between developing new urban farms andcreating a healthy local food system. Underserved communities on the south and west side of Chicago have suffered for years from disinvestment, and this can be

especially seen when looking at the food systems in these communities. Residents have little access to healthy, fresh foods.

During the past few years three communities have been doing innovative work focusing on changing their communities through urban farming and local food. These

communities are Greater Englewood, Humboldt Park, and Washington Park. Leaders of these initiatives have been meeting together to discover what they can learn

from each other, and how they can use their collective experience to develop a more collaborative approach to work in their communities.

Four of these leaders will discuss their experiences and talk about their future collaborative goals.

Co-Presenter: Harry Rhodes, Executive Director, Growing Home

Mr. Rhodes has been with Growing Home since 2001. He initiated the first year of organic farming job training in 2002, and has overseen the growth of this social

enterprise that operates 3 urban farms in Chicago. Mr. Rhodes is one of the leading advocates for urban agriculture in Chicago.

Co-Presenter: Ray Thompson, Coordinator, Greater Englewood Urban Agriculture Task Force

Ray Thompson has worked in a range of professional capacities for respected Chicago area social service agencies and educational institutions. Connecting and

empowering others unleashes innovative local change and uncovers the natural synergy that exists between people and their neighbourhood. Ray is the Coordinator

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Co-Presenter: Carlos DeJess, Assistant Principal, Pedro Abizu Campos High School

Carlos R. DeJess is the Assistant Principal at Pedro Albizu Campos High School and the Director of Urban Agriculture for the Greater Humboldt Park Urban Agriculture

Initiative. The Initiative is designed to eradicate the communitys designation as a food desert, and ameliorate the nutrition -based chronic illnesses that plague the

community.

Co-Presenter: Brandon F. Johnson, Executive Director, Washington Park Consortium

Brandon F. Johnson is the Executive Director of the Washington Park Consortium, a non-profit dedicated to the development and service of the Washington Park

community. Mr. Johnson specializes in public policy and urban development in the global context. He is leading the urban agriculture initiative in Washington Park.

Urban Agriculture as a Social Enterprise: Challenges and Opportunities

This session will explore the benefits and challenges of running an urban agriculture initiative as a social enterprise. We will briefly cover what a social enterprise is,

and then move to why it makes sense and what the obstacles are. With a team of four presenters, we will cover: - legislative barriers as well as the progress that hasmade; - the currently level of public awareness around this model and how that could affect your urban agriculture initiative; - marketing strategies for overcoming

public misperceptions; - how the social enterprise model can help move urban agriculture from small scale niche-markets to the mainstream; - successful examples

Co-Presenter: Jenny Struyk, MBA, Co-Founder, Director of Strategy & Innovation, Urban Produce Inc.

Jenny has extensive program management, international experience. From 2009-2011, she was Director, Youth Eco Internship Program at YWCA Canada. There, she

built and ran a $5 million program placing youth in paid internships in the environmental sector. She holds an M.B.A. from Schulich School of Business, York

University.

Co-Presenter: Ran Goel, MSc, JD, Co-Founder, Fresh City Farms

Ran is an activist and co-founder of Fresh City, a city farm growing and delivering food to thousands of Torontonians each week. Previously, Ran practiced investment

law with Sidley Austin LLP in New York. He holds a business degree from the Schulich School of Business, York University, masters in political economy from the

London School of Economics and a law degree from the University of Toronto.

Co-Presenter: Tara Moreau, PhD, Vice President, Board of Directors, The Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC)

Tara has been researching and promoting sustainable food systems since 2002. For six years she has co-chaired SPEC's Food Committee. She is postdoctoral fellow

with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions researching climate change and agriculture. She has also worked as an organic agriculture consultant with the United

Nations-Food and Agriculture Organization.

Co-Presenter: Carly Dunster, LLB, Food Lawyer, Carly Dunster Law

Carly has a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Windsor. She has worked as a speechwriter and communications strategist, and director/legal advisor for largenon-profit organizations. Over the years, she has provided significant pro-bono service to a variety of food organizations including labour/employment,

landlord/tenant, non-profit, corporate and small-claims matters.

Moderator: Keir Brownstone, General Manager, GLOBE Inc., Housing Services Corporation

SESSION 2: SOCIAL ENTERPRISE & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Commercial Rooftop Urban Agriculture

Lufa Farms: A Successful Commercial Rooftop Farm In Montreal

Lufa Farms is an innovative model in responsible and sustainable urban food production. The farm has been in operation more than 1 year and has exceeded its

production goals and met its financial goals. Kurt Lynn, Lufa Farms co-founder and Vice President will recount the rationale and planning behind the Lufa Farms

project, describe some of the challenges the farm faced and describe how they were overcome. He will also discuss the future requirements for successful urban

farms and enumerate obstacles that face such farms.

Presenter: Kurt D. Lynn, Vice-president and co-founder, Lufa Farms

Kurt D. Lynn is a consultant and serial entrepreneur and is co-founder and Vice President of Lufa Farms, the worlds first commercial scale rooftop greenhouse.

Previously Kurt was co-founder of ListenUp!-Canada in Toronto, and a senior executive in several high technology enterprises. He lives with his family in Cobourg,

Ontario.

Wearing Many Hats Growing Food on New York City Roofs

Ben Flanner will give an overview of the Brooklyn Grange, and the challenges and adventures in rooftop farming. The presentation will include an overview of the

Brooklyn Grange's business, farm activities, costs, and business activities.

Presenter: Ben Flanner, Head Farmer, President, Brooklyn Grange

Ben Flanner is the head farmer, CEO, and co-founder of Brooklyn Grange, a rooftop farm business in based in New York City. A pioneering urban farm operation, the

business produces vegetables, herbs, and honey on intensive green roofs, and sells its produce via restaurants, farmers markets, and CSAs. Brooklyn Grange is widely

recognized as the leader in rooftop soil farming and as an exceptional green and community minded business. Prior to founding the Brooklyn Grange, Ben co-founded

and managed the Eagle Street Rooftop farm. He has a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, and prior experience in consulting and

marketing for the finance industry. The Brooklyn Grange received the LICBDC Green Business Award in 2010, and the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Award of

Excellence in 2011. He was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and currently resides in Brooklyn.

Moderator: David Cohlmeyer, Sustainable Good Foods Consultant

SESSION 2: HOW TO, SKILLS, & TECHNOLOGY Animals in Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture

Can Sheep Cut My Grass Too?

A look at smallholding and micro-farming (10 acres or less) with livestock in an urban environment on a small scale. Local and international models will be looked at.

Challenges and potential solutions of smallholding will be discussed, as well as solutions to overcoming these challenges.

Presenter: Jennifer Osborn, All Sorts Acre

Jennifer Osborn is a certified Permaculture Designer and teacher, artist and farmer. Inspired by the smallholdings in Europe and a strong desire to farm long with her

husband Tim began All Sorts Acre in 2007. A 1.18 acre permaculture and biodynamic smallholding with sheep, chickens, and forest gardens.

Adventures in Urban Hen Keeping

This presentation deals with hands-on experience with the keeping of urban hensthe surprises, the challenges, the solutions. Find out the how-to in keeping

chickens in the city, she aims to demystify and share what its like, based on her experience with urban hen-keeping in Toronto.


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Presenter: Lorraine Johnson, Author

A writer and editor based in Toronto. Her most recent book is City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing. She is active in various initiatives and organizations

related to urban agriculture, particularly community gardens and urban chickens.

Animal Butchering and Animal Welfare

As increasing numbers of urban residents keep livestock for meat, conflicts over butchering are arising in various cities. Critics from vegan and animal-rights

perspectives have challenged small-scale livestock keepers legal and moral rights to butcher their animals. How can advocates for urban meat production satisfy

public concerns over animal welfare while advocating for sound practices of meat production? This presentation will use case studies in Oakland, CA, and

Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN, to examine the values, concerns, and language used by both critics and practitioners of small-scale butchering. It will examine the role that

policy might play in defusing some of the tension in this conflict. It will also offer an opportunity for participants to discuss how this debate has arisen and/or been

resolved in their cities.Presenter: Jennifer Blecha, Assistant Professor, Geography and Human Environmental Studies

Jennifer Blecha teaches about food systems, waste reduction, and animal geographies at San Francisco State University. She has been involved in urban agriculture as

a non-profit program manager, researcher, and practitioner. She interned at City Farmer, started a fruit gleaning program in Minneapolis, and wrote her dissertation

on urban livestock-keeping.

Moderator: Ravenna Nuaimy-Barker, Director, Sustain Ontario

SESSION 2: PLANING & POLICY Accessing Land for Urban Agriculture

Enhancing Food Security: Identifying Land for Urban Agriculture

Based on previous urban agriculture land inventories (UALIs) in Portland and Vancouver, Jennifer has established site selection criteria specific to the City of Victoria

(CoV); in British Columbia, to determine sites suitable for urban agriculture. The site selection criteria reflects recommendations from interviews with planners,

community garden participants, educators and non-profits engaged in urban food production in the CoV. The interviews also explore the underlying barriers and

supports to allotting land for urban agriculture. Initial results indicate a desire to use urban agriculture as a tool for restoration and conflicting perceptions of urban

agriculture as an accepted land use. The final UALI will present a detailed map of the CoV; with a concluding discussion explaining the methods used to create the s ite

criteria; the barriers and supports for allotting land to urban agriculture; and how urban agriculture can contribute to ecological restoration while increasing the food

security of a city.

Presenter: Jennifer Anne Sauter, MA Student, University of Victoria

Jennifer Sauter is a third year graduate student at the University of Victorias School of Environmental Studies. She is currently developing an urban agriculture land

inventory for the City of Victoria; and is interested in the planning and restoration of urban food systems.

Transformative Tactics for Land Tenure: Promoting Food Sovereignty through Connecting Communities to Vacant Land

Philadelphians struggle to preserve gardens despite massive property abandonment and food insecurity. Brooklynites strive to access existing vacant land and grow

food in the face of development pressure.

Philadelphias Garden Justice Legal Initiative works to facilitate new and preserve threatened gardens using legal tools, community education, shared resources, and

advocacy for equitable, transparent policy. Brooklyns 596 Acres raises community awareness and helps neighbors connect to land, through distributing information,

visioning sessions, and advocacy and support for community-determined projects.

GJLI and 596 Acres founders and community lawyers, Amy Laura Cahn and Paula Z. Segal will explore challenges of growing food without land ownership in distinct

political and economic climates. They will engage participants in discussing land sovereignty tactics, including data access; land trusting; land policies and land banks

legal actions; community planning; and agreements with public and private entities.

Finally, they will discuss how they endeavor to create synergy between legal, policy, and virtual tools and real world organizing.Co-Presenter: Amy Laura Cahn, Garden Justice Legal Initiative, Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia

Amy Laura Cahn runs Philadelphias Garden Justice Legal Initiative, uses legal and advocacy support to give gardeners and farmers greater control over the future of

their neighbourhoods as they work to transform them. She has been a community organizer with the ACLU of Pennsylvania and Brooklyns Pratt Area Community

Council and helped found New Yorks Bluestockings Womens Bookstore.

Co-Presenter: Paula Segal, Lead Facilitator, Founder, 596 Acres

596 Acres founder Paula Z. Segal builds capacity for community-based organizing putting maps in the hands of change makers. She is a NYC NLG Street Law Team

founder and practices law at Rankin & Taylor. Paula has taught English to Speakers of Other Languages and run an all-volunteer adult English school on the

Lower East Side.

Changing the Conversation: New Partners, New Crops and New Ways of Doing Business at Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

All around us we see an increasing awareness and a behavioural shift by people looking for food that is locally grown, safe and nutritious. A new kind of agriculture is

emerging in city regions requiring different partners, different crops and different ways of doing business. Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) has re-

evaluated it traditional role in agriculture and is making a conscious effort to contribute to local food and the agricultural sector. As the largest landowner in the most

populated region of the country, TRCA is now reserving some of its land for urban and near urban agriculture. The presentation discusses a new agriculture land and

local food procurement policy, and four new urban farm ventures that focus on skill development, production and corporate self-sufficiency. Making a contribution to

sustainable communities is the underlying corporate objective.Presenter: Sonia Dhir, MCIP RPP, Project Manager, Watershed Management, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

Moderator:Martin Bailkey, Evaluation and Outreach Coordinator, Growing Power


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6:00 PM 6:30 PM TORONTO CITY HALL GREEN ROOF TOUR

Walk over to Toronto City Hall and join Steven Peck, Founder and President, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities and Terry McGlade, Consultant at Flynn

Canada who will be giving a tour of the city's largest publicly accessible green roof.

Location: Toronto City Hall Rotunda, 100 Queen Street West at Bay St.

Directions from Ryerson University:

Walk west on Gould St.; turn left (southbound) onto Yonge St.; turn right (westbound) on to Dundas St. W.; turn left (southbound) on Bay St., arrive at 100 Queen

Street West. (less than a 10 minute walk)

6:30 PM8:00 PM TORONTO CITY HALL RECEPTION EVENT

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Growing the CityA reception to launch the GrowTO Urban Agriculture Action Plan.

Location: City Hall Rotunda, 100 Queen Street West at Bay St. Walk west on Gould St.; turn left (southbound) onto Yonge St.; turn

right (westbound) on to Dundas St. W.; turn left (southbound) on Bay St., arrive at 100 Queen Street West. (less than a 10 minute walk)

Hosted by the Toronto Food Policy Council, the reception at City Hall is a public celebration of green ideas and innovations, and will serve to put Toronto on the map

as a leader in urban agriculture and sustainable city-building. We are thrilled that Will Allen of Growing Power in the United States will also speak and be available to

sign his new book "The Good Food Revolution," along with the authors of other recent urban agriculture books.

Toronto's City Hall is a striking landmark, designed in the 1960s by award winning Finnish architect Viljo Revell. The design is divided into three main parts: the

podium, the convex circular council chamber and two office towers of differing heights. The entire City Hall complex has a sculptural quality that makes it the ideal

symbol of a growing city. Open to the public.

FRIDAY AUGUST 17 URBAN AGRICULTURE SUMMIT

7:00 AM- 5:00 PM REGISTRATION DESK OPENS (SCC LOBBY)

8:30 AM10:00 AM OPENING PLENARY (TRS10-67)

SAYING YES TO URBAN AGRICULTURE: WHAT IT BRINGS TO THE CITY, WHY ARE PEOPLE SAYING YES &

HOW CAN WE SAY YES IN THE FUTURE?

Master of Ceremonies: Lauren Baker, Coordinator, Toronto Food Policy CouncilLauren Baker is currently the Coordinator for the Toronto Food Policy Council, and formerly the Director of Sustain Ontario: The Alliance

for Healthy Food and Farming. She has a PhD from York University. In addition to being a certificate course instructor and lecturer at

the University of Toronto, she is a food researcher and activist with over ten years of experience. Lauren's areas of focus include:

farmers' markets and building local food economies, implementing sustainable biodiverse agriculture projects and addressing food

policy. From 1997-2003, Lauren worked at FoodShare as the founding urban agriculture program coordinator.

Steven Peck, Founder and President, Green Roofs For Healthy CitiesSteven W. Peck is the founder and President of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities. For well over a deca de, Mr. Peck has conducted public

policy research on a variety of environment and economy issues with a focus on environmental technology transfer and public policy.

He is a founding member of the World Green Roof Network that encourages the formation of green roof industry associations

throughout the world, and the Green Infrastructure Foundation Ontario Coalition. In 2006, Steven won the Canadian Urban Institute

Urban Leadership Award for his efforts to promote 'City Livability'. He has authored or co-authored numerous reports and writtenextensively on the topic of green roof design, policy and research and has spoken on the subject at conferences throughout North

America and internationally. He is an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and participated on

the committee which developed the first and only form of accreditation for those working in the green roof industry, the Green Roof

Professional (GRP) designation.


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Erika Allen, Chicago and National Outreach Manager, Growing PowerErika Allen is Chicago and National Projects Director for Growing Power. As the daughter of Will Allen, she has a small farm agricultural

background and experience. She spent her formative years, involved in all aspects of farm management from transplanting seedlings to

managing farm stands and farmers markets. Ms. Allen has received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and recently

received her MA in art therapy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Integrating the creative and therapeutic techniques with food

security and community development have enabled Ms. Allen to establish seven urban agriculture and food system projects in Chicago.

Ms. Allen was an awardee for the Chicago Tribunes Good Eating Award in 2006 and was honored by Family Focus in 2007 for her work

in community food systems. In 2009, Womens Environmental Institute (WEI) honored Erika as a Mother of the Environment for

Minneapolis/St. Paul. She is also a Post Carbon Institute Fellow.

Martin Blake, Vice-President, Daniels CorporationMartin Blake, Vice President of the GTA based The Daniels Corporation, is a developer who is actively involved in the creation of housing

within the GTA, with a specific interest in environmental and affordable housing within Toronto. As a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity

Toronto for the past 16 years, Blake also serves as the current Chair on the HFHT Board of Directors.

Blakes role, on behalf of The Daniels Corporation, includes management of the Revitalization of Regent Park, which is being directed in

a partnership with Toronto Community Housing. The 15-year Revitalization represents a leading model for building a complete, mixed

community through ongoing community engagement and the creation of social development opportunities, as well as a revitalization o

physical infrastructure.

Sheila Penny, TDSB, Toronto Lands CorporationSheila Penny earned Bachelor and Masters degrees in Architecture (1977 & 1981) from the Univ ersity of Manitoba. Following

graduation she had a successful career with Moriyama and Teshimi Architects before joining the public sector as an architect in 1994. In

1999 Sheila was appointed to the position of General Manager, Technical Services for the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). In May

of 2002 she became Executive Superintendent, Facility Services with an expanded mandate to provide facility services to 250,000

students and 650 facilities. On February 3, 2010 Sheila was appointed as the Director of Strategic Building and Renewal providing

leadership for TDSBs Sustainable Capital Program & Strategy.

In her last public sector appointment on February 20, 2012 Sheila was appointed as the Chief Architect for the Toronto Lands

Corporation (TLC) where she will lead TDSB approved redevelopment projects, rebuilding schools as sustainable community hubs with

places for people to live. Sheila believes that buildings and their settings can greatly enhance the quality of human life. As an architect

serving educational and institutional facilities for over 20 years, Sheila has translated that belief into practice.

Meg McCallum, Centre Towns Citizens Ottawa Corporation

10:00 AM10:30 AM COFFEE BREAK (SCC COURTYARD LOUNGE)

10:30 AM12 NOON CONCURRENT SESSION 3

SESSION 3: COMMUNITY BUILDING & SOCIAL HOUSING Urban Food Production and Social Inclusion

Urban Agriculture and the Detroit Experience

The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) has labored for nearly six years to contribute to the public dialogue about food security and foodjustice in Detroit. We continue to operate D-Town Farm, which recently expanded from two acres to seven acres and serves as the Detroit area Regional Outreach

Training Center for Growing Power Inc. We continue to play a leadership role in the Detroit Food Policy Council and in efforts to address racism in the food system.

Presenter: Malik Yakini, Executive Director, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network

Malik is an educator, business owner and activist who is committed to freedom and justice for humanity in general, and African people in particular. Yakini is a

founder and Interim Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which operates a two acre farm in Detroit and spearheaded efforts to

establish the Detroit Food Policy Council, which he chairs.

Cultural Diversity and Urban Agriculture in Toronto

A diversity of cultural communities has long-standing, ancient traditions of growing food that have been kept and translated to the Canadian / Toronto setting. Also,

many ethno-racial communities have discovered the joys of gardening after making Toronto their home.

There are challenges, e.g., many communities prefer to distance themselves from painful associations with agriculture; lack of support or recognition of different

sources of agricultural knowledge and practices.

We want to show how different communities have been at the forefront of the urban agricultural movement in Toronto.

This session will feature:

- Short film featuring Anan and Afri-Can FoodBasket

- Presentation on the meaning, realities and experience of urban agriculture for diverse cultural groups in Toronto.

Presenter: Shewat Zeru, Consultant Farmer, AfriCan Food Basket/ McVean Farm/ Eritrean Youth Coaliation

Co-Presenter: Anan Lololi, Executive Director of African Food Basket

Moderator: Gayla Trail, Author, Writer, Photographer, Graphic Designer, Creator, You Grow Girl

SESSION 3: DESIGN & INFRASTRUCTURE Universities Role in Urban Agriculture Education

Introducing Urban Horticulture in Architectural Education

This presentation provides an overview of the relationship between agriculture and cities and discusses how architecture educators have included urban agriculture

to the curriculum, as well as how students have explored ways to integrate urban horticulture to project proposals they developed.

Co-Presenter: Leila Marie Farah, Assistant Professor, Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University

Leila Marie is an Assistant Professor in Architecture at Ryerson University. She graduated from lEcole nationale suprieure darchitecture Paris -Malaquais, earned an


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M.Arch and a PhD from McGill Universitys School of Architecture. Her research focuses on the correlation between food flows and architecture, interdisciplinary

design and healthy and inclusive cities.

Co-Presenter: June Komisar, Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University

June Komisar, AIA is an Associate Professor in the Architectural Science department and an ENSCIMAN faculty member at Ryerson University. She earned a M Arch

from Yale University and a PhD in Architecture from the University of Michigan. She is an Associate of the Centre for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson University, a

member of the Toronto Food Policy Council and a co-author of Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture.

Co-Presenter: Silviu Anton, Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University

The Productive Collective: a Boston-Based Design/Build Urban Farming Research

This session will situate the work of the Productive Collective an emerging ad---hoc community organization in the context of the Boston Redevelopment Authority

initiative to re-zone the city for agricultural uses. We hope to impart practical knowledge from our education---based aquaponics project through the lens of

architectural and urban design.Co-Presenter: Kyle Sturgeon, Director of Advanced Studios, Building Technology and Management

Kyle earned a Master of Architecture with high distinction from University of Michigan in 2011, where he was awarded Thesis Prize, the Alpha Rho Chi Medal, and the

AIA Henry Adams Certificate. After completing a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with honors at the University of Virginia in 2005, he worked for four years in

Boston with Office Da, Kennedy & Violich, and Moshe Safdie Architects. Kyle holds a certificate in Design Education and an unrestricted construction supervisors

license in the Commonweath of Massachusetts.

Co-Presenter: Marilyn W. Moedinger, LEED AP, Architectural Designer, Utile Inc Architecture + Planning, Boston, MA, Instructor, Boston Architectural College

Marilyn has worked as an architect and contractor, and has taught at University of Virginia, Northeastern University, and Boston Architectural College. She holds a BS

in Architecture, a BA in History, and an MArch from University of Virginia. She recently completed a book based on her research conducted on five continents as the

2010 SOM Prize Fellow, entitled "Adventures in the Vernacular: Investigative Observations of Residential Climate Mediation.

Co-Presenter: Lauren Shirley, LEED AP, Architecture and Planning Professional, Boston, MA

Lauren received her B.S. in Architecture from the University of Virginia, and earned her M.Arch from the Univers

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