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Fresh Ground Cafe is Re-Opening

Published September 2024

After considerable remediation work on the building at 256 King, we are ready to open our doors. We have intentionally crafted the space at Fresh Ground to be an oasis of brightness and calm, with close to 1,000 plants helping us to build fresh ground as a gathering place.

We are introducing a new menu that celebrates community, sustainability, and the joy of sharing meals. This menu will be available at Fresh Ground, in take home meals and catering options.

In our lively kitchen, we prepare fresh food daily, uniting individuals from diverse backgrounds to collaborate, acquire new skills, and create delicious, affordable, and healthy whole food dishes. Discover our beloved traditional favorites alongside offerings from our new café, which features a plant-based menu designed to encourage mindful eating and promote a lighter lifestyle.

We have been working to build a regenerative café model by reducing waste in our practices and in our take out dishes. A new coffee roaster prepares fresh roasted coffee and the delicious teas and drinks make this a great spot to grab a tea or coffee, or meet a friend.

We are hoping you come for more than the food. Fresh Ground Café is also a space that will host discussions, explorations of ideas, and circles to understand deeply the great unravelling of our world and the opportunity to build a more compassionate and just world.

We welcome you to join us! Fresh Ground Cafe is open Monday to Saturday 8:30am – 3:30pm.

More information available at: www.theworkingcentre.org/freshground

PS: Next we are working on renewing the Queen Street Commons Café and the Green Door on Queen Street South!

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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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