Children attending a session at Thorncliffe Park's urban farm examine local plants.
Parents and community organizers told CBC Toronto the gardening program is particularly important in a neighbourhood like Thorncliffe Park that is characterized by multiple high-rise buildings and a lack of space for recreation.Children attending a session at Thorncliffe Park's urban farm examine local plants.
"We hope that all of the students at Fraser Mustard ... are seeing themselves as capable of contributing," she said. "We're really making important and long-lasting connections to the natural world." Children make bird feeders at Thorncliffe Park's urban farm. "I really love how they have included parents … we get to bond with each other as well," Hansa said.CBC Toronto is spending time in the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood as part of our Communities in Focus initiative. Our goal is to hear your stories about this unique neighbourhood and share them with the rest of the city.
The expansion of the garden has also helped bring back plants and species that have been lost to the development in the neighbourhood over the decades, he said. Thorncliffe Park sits near greenery along the Don River. According to the city of Toronto's neighbourhood profile of Thorncliffe Park, the area's population density is 6,787 people per square kilometre, which is about one-and-a-half times Toronto's average of 4,457 per square kilometre.The lack of green space in the community prompted Delaney to found Thorncliffe Park Urban Farmers a decade ago.
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