Projects

Past work

Balcony Garden at YorkU

As students from York University, we wanted to find sustainable ways to grow organic produce. The balcony garden is where UFI originally started, and we wanted to introduce sustainable farming even in small spaces.

Year 1

We grew vegetables and herbs in containers that were donated to us from Tim Hortons and Booster Juice. We expanded each year to grow more produce and we brought in fabric containers. The fabric containers held more moisture than the plastic containers and yield more produce.

Year 2

We donated all the produce to Food For Thought at York University.

Coming Soon

Community Garden

The community garden is at Rexlington park (30 Bergamot Ave, Etobicoke, ON M9W 1V9), where we have partnered with the City of Toronto. The community garden is approximately ~5000 square feet. This community garden will serve the community and the food bank.

Initial phase of the garden, the fence has been put. The land has been tilled.

Greenhouse

The greenhouse was built in 2021 and was fully utilized this year to grow all of our seedlings. We germinated the seedlings indoor and then moved them into the greenhouse. We grow seedling from the community garden but also partnerships we created with other organizations that have garden spaces and are need of seedlings.