Activists make a point as they make compost and grow vegetables on land in Downsview

Aug 05, 2009
Catherine Porter
The Star

Sunny Lam walks down his farm row pointing out the epazote here – “it’s a Mexican herb” – and the flowering kale there, which is “growing like crazy” as another TTC bus roars by.

“In farming, even in the city, you have to experiment,” he says, holding a straw hat in one hand and snatching a clump of earth at his feet with the other. “You got to get to know soil, which crops grow well there.”

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