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Rachael Chong

A Place Where Plants and Community Thrive

Adam Kramer September 30, 2021

The road to the Working Centre Market Garden is not through country fields of corn or soy, barley or hay, rather it runs though city streets and neighbourhoods. You can arrive on the Number 6 bus, or by bike or foot, if not by car.  And when you arrive, you are met with sun shining through the fruit trees, or raindrops on puddled paths, and the call of a robin or a wren as the osprey circle overhead.  You are met by gardeners, eager to tell you stories if you’d like to listen. Eager to have your help with some weeding, or eager to get in a harvest and share it with you.

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A Good Season at Hacienda Sarria Market Garden

Adam Kramer September 1, 2020

The sun has been shining this September and the growers at Hacienda Market Garden have been making full use of it! In a challenging year, the garden has been incredibly productive and heading into fall we are very pleased with the growing season so far and are feeling confident and hopeful for the seasons to come!

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Who Are Our Teachers?

Adam Kramer March 1, 2019

This past season, a remarkable community of gardeners brought to the garden the skills, knowledge and curiosity to make 2018 our most productive year to date. With a 25% increase in yields compared to the previous year, we were able to feed 115 families weekly through our CSA program, as well as many more purchasing our vegetables through local stores and restaurants. Over 17,000 pounds on less than one acre of land! How did this happen?

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Rooted in Place at the Hacienda Sarria Market Garden

Rachael Chong March 1, 2018

In The Working Centre’s year of Wendell Berry, we too are taking time to reflect on the Urban Agriculture Projects as places of rootedness and meaningful work. In a world beset with seemingly overwhelming crises, these modest projects take on a sense of sanctuary, where a community of growers care deeply for this piece of land and work together in a spirit of co-operation to help it thrive.

The Hacienda Sarria Market Garden has turned a neglected urban area into productive greenspace with astounding ecological diversity. Soil ecosystems hum away beneath our feet – sequestering carbon, supporting healthy crops.

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The Integrated Circle of Care is a fluid and collaborative approach followed by workers from different agencies weaving through St. John’s Kitchen. Within this approach, staff members from each agency are aware of their specific personal roles. However, the high level of collaboration between workers means that people can approach any worker, without knowing their agency association or specific role, and still receive support – either that worker will support the person directly, or they will introduce the person to another worker who can support the person more appropriately.

This approach makes relationships more natural and support more accessible. Workers from different agencies are easily approachable, meaning that people build relationships with multiple workers. Having relationships with different workers is important to a person’s support – it makes support from a trusted source easy to find, and means that people have a choice of worker to approach in any given situation.

In order to maintain a circle of care around a person, workers from different agencies ask for consent from the person for information to be shared between workers. Continuous communication between workers helps to ensure that people do not fall into gaps between services, and also that services are not duplicated.

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