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Edible backyards: Residential land use for food production in Toronto Robin Kortright, Master of Arts 2007 Department of Geography, Collaborative Program in Environment and Health University of Toronto
Through a series of interviews, a portrait of home food gardeners in the context of their homes and communities was developed. The research examined where and how food is grown in Toronto home gardens, and what place the food grown occupies within the lives of the gardeners who grow, eat, and share it with others.
With the objective of developing an exploratory assessment of the contribution home food gardening makes to community food security in Toronto, in-depth interviews were conducted with...
Includes literature review and results of research involving interviews of 125 residents of two Toronto neighbourhoods. By Robin Kortright, 2007 (147 pages). Edible Backyards: Residential Land Use for Food Production in Toronto | Food Secure Canada
- Characterizing Home Food Gardeners
- Home Food Gardening and Community Food Security
- Beyond Community Food Security
- Facilitators and Barriers
One-hundred-and-twenty-five residents of the two Toronto neighborhoods of North Riverdale (n = 64) and Weston-Mt. Dennis (n = 61) responded to the initial screening survey. Of those surveyed, just over half (54%) grew food, defined as vegetables, fruits, nuts, or herbs (Table 2). Of these, almost three quarters grew herbs, nearly two-thirds grew ve...
Accessibility
The gardeners who participated in the interviews did not tend to grow sufficient food to sustain themselves and their families. However, about a third of the gardeners interviewed did grow a substantial quantity of fresh produce. All of these gardens were self-sufficient in at least some foods through the harvest season: Growing food in both large and small lots, these gardeners devoted everything from 16 m2 (19 yd2/0.004 acre) to a full 121 m2 (145 yd2/0.03 acre) of their gardens to food pro...
Culturally appropriate foods
Community food security encompasses not only access to nutritious food, but also food that is culturally appropriate. The ability to grow foods unique to one’s individual heritage has been highlighted as a central contribution of food gardening to community food security (Baker 2002). However, the need to access culturally appropriate foods not available otherwise did not tend to be a significant factor for the interview participants in their decision to grow food at home, and these foods mad...
Community connections
Food can be a way to connect with others, through reciprocal giving and as a mutual occupation that links neighbors through shared experience. However, typically the interview participants viewed food gardening as something that is done for family or oneself rather than within and impacting on a broader context. The gardeners interviewed did share food. However, the small amounts of excess foods shared were not generally considered part of the purpose of the garden. Hobby and environmental ga...
Home food growing affects community food security in a number of different ways. However, one of the most important impacts from the perspective of the interview participants is not strictly speaking an element of community food security. Rather, it is the impact on the gardeners’ own health and well-being. Breathing fresh air, being active and str...
There are a number of different factors that can facilitate or hinder urban home food gardening. One of the most important elements is having the skills to nurture a productive garden. Establishing a garden takes considerable effort, and it also takes knowledge. All of the interview participants had experience gardening with their families and were...
- Robin Kortright, Sarah Wakefield
- 2011
In this exploratory assessment of the contribution home food gardening makes to community food security, in-depth interviews were conducted with gardeners in two contrasting neighborhoods in Toronto, Canada.
21 de set. de 2016 · This paper addresses issues of access to land for food production in Toronto by offering fresh perspectives on urban agriculture in the neo-liberal city of the global north.
