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2011 Edible Garden Container Photo Show
This year's photo contest produced a great crop of submissions! Toronto Green Community, Riverdale Food Working Group and Toronto Balconies Bloom are pleased to showcase the Contest Winners and Sponsors and Prizes here. Enjoy the enthusiasm of winners, award sponsors and celebrity garden judges for producing food in small spaces.
"What a great contest! I am excited to see so much success growing edibles in containers; to see amazingly creative containers including a purse, desk drawers and a shoe bag; and to see an unexpected crop such as rice." Contest judge Steven Biggs
"When it comes to finding containers for growing plants, you’re only limited by your imagination. That’s the delightful can-do spirit shown by entrants!" Contest judge Aldona Satterthwaite
"The entries for this year’s photo contest were fantastic. I especially liked seeing how many people used recycled materials and other inventive types of planting containers. I appreciated the simplicity of a well-tended lemon balm in a drawer and a perennial garlic chive as well as the larger and more unusual plants. It was also interesting to see that multiple gardeners used containers within a larger space or in combination with their on-the-ground gardens." Contest judge Lara Mrosovsky
Browse through the images and stories of container gardens produced from the hearts, minds, eyes, limbs, appetites and energy of enthusiasts for growing crops in pots!
  
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Toronto’s First Edible Container Garden Show - 2009
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Toronto’s first Edible Container Garden Show was held Saturday, August 8th, 2009 at Withrow Park Farmers' Market. The Show was a joint initiative of Withrow Park Farmers’ Market and Toronto Balconies Bloom set up to help spread enthusiasm and experience for growing edible plants in containers.
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Duncan Mills Housing Co-operative
Located at Don Mills & 401
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In 2006, a project was started to turn a 12th floor terrace (in 15-story co-op building of 221 units) into a sustainable, accessible, chiefly vegetable, community garden. It was the idea of Mary Hynes, who has continued to drive its implementation.
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Growing Together in St. James Town
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Families with young children living in high-rise buildings in St. James Town in downtown Toronto grew these edible container gardens as part of the 'Grow Our Own' balcony and community garden project. This project was born out of a grant received by Growing Together in 2003 from the Food and Hunger Action Fund, and has continued and expanded every season since. We now start our own seedlings at Allan Gardens Children's Conservatory, in partnership with City of Toronto. Growing Together is a program of the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre.
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A Condominium Balcony Beautification Project
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In the spring of 2010, Tony Jones, a resident of Carriage Lane condominium complex in Abbotsford B.C., suggested to his condominium committee that a balcony beautification competition be set up to encourage more individual residents to enhance their already beautifully landscaped complex. Carriage Lane units are either ground level or first floor. Each unit has two quite large balconies, in most cases facing east and west.
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