Toronto’s Urban Harvest – an urban agriculture store

Urban Harvest Store

Posted by Annia V
BlogTO
July 10, 2010

Excerpt:

Urban Harvest was the first urban agriculture business of its kind in Toronto, long before organic became a supermarket staple, specializing in ecologically sustainable garden alternatives.

Owner Colette Murphy has been at the forefront of the grow-your-own-food movement since the late nineties, when she was inspired by the lack of heirloom (open-pollinated, non-hybridized plants) and organic options available in the market. What may have started as a grassroots mission to supply Torontonians with locally harvested plants and seeds has since evolved into one which promotes stewardship of the land through greater farming consciousness.

The Safe Seed Pledge, found right on the main page of Urban Harvest’s website, reads like a gardener’s ultimate manifesto – advocating for the health, safety and security not just of the food and conditions in which it is grown, but of the individuals and entire communities who consume it. Perhaps equal in mandate is Murphy’s own passion for educating and enabling others to nourish themselves by bridging the gap between urban living and healthy, homegrown food.

Urban Harvest is a supplier of over 270 species of 100% certified organic flower, herb and vegetable seeds. To keep up with demand, Murphy has expanded over time from a modest plot of land into a network of local growers and organic farms, including a greenhouse at Downsview Park.

See more of the story here.

See the Urban Harvest website here.