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Transform a local lawn into an edible vegetable garden in Spring 2015! Help us by volunteering, donating your lawn lending your tools, time or just a few dollars! Our Grass to Gardens campaign is about creating easy to copy boxes that will be overflowing with fresh vegetables and to provide them to people in our local neighborhood of the Plateau.

Taking ownership of food production is an empowering step towards long-term self-sustainability and we want to help the residents of our neighborhoods in doing so. This project will also include door-to-door outreach, educational workshops and of course planting food in 2015, turning ordinary front yards into lush vegetable gardens.

All of this wouldn’t be possible without JoatU, and so this is a joint project in helping get the platform off the ground. JoatU is an altruistic online classifieds that benefits community strengthening and encourages local exchange by encouraging its users to barter and give. Along with encouraging bartering and trade, JoatU offers "community points" for benefiting the community.

We will also be sharing a portion of our contributions with Cycle Alimenterre. Cycle Alimenterre transforms local residents' backyard spaces into thriving, diverse fruit and vegetable producing systems. We farm the vegetables in people’s backyards and distribute them by bicycle to market.

This neighborhood project has the aim to rethink cities and encourage and empower individuals to be involved in what they eat and the nature around them. Our very environment-friendly bicycle market is a hub to bring our community closer, share ideas about how we can be more sustainable as a society and to generally promote health and well-being. We cultivate and harvest our produce in an ecological way, using permaculture techniques that work in harmony with nature.

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Transformez une pelouse en potager au printemps 2015! Aidez-nous en devenant bénévole, en donnant accès à votre terrain, en prêtant vos outils, en donnant un peu de votre temps ou quelques dollars! Le projet Pelouse à Potager vise à créer des caissons faciles à fabriquer qui serviront à produire une récolte riche en légumes frais pour la communauté du Plateau-Mont-Royal.