Author: Diane Szoller
London’s First Urban Agriculture Steering Committee
TREA is excited to have attended the City’s first Urban Agriculture Steering Committee meeting this month. The goal is to develop a plan engaging community to become involved with all the strategy’s many action opportunities. A final report at year end will be strategized for Council’s consideration. March 2018 Newsletter
TREA Video
During February and March TREA is developing a TREA video specifically to talk about TREA and its opportunities, as well as creating a new TREA pop-up display panel and new project flyers. February 2018 Newsletter
Governance, Special Projects and Events
TREA is taking special time now to map out the year 2018. This includes governance, special projects, presentations, special events and volunteer opportunities. January 2018 Newsletter
LEN’s Day of Refle-Action
TREA and participate with LEN’s Day of Refle-Action held on Nov. 17 with other community groups. Amazing updates and idea sharing took place and a fabulous lunch was catered by Growing Chefs. December 2017 Newsletter
GreenDrinks
TREA welcomes 2 new Board members – Colin Baird and Melissa March. Recent activities – we were pleased to be on a team in the finals at GreenDrinks, Oct 5 on the topic of community energy planning. November 2017 Newsletter
Western Fair
We was pleased to have a message at Western Fair this year (Sept 8-17) in conjunction with displays organized by Friends of Urban Agriculture (who are partnered with the Fair). Also in Sept, TREA had a display at Doors Open on Sept 16 held at Grosvenor Lodge where TREA has its office (see photo). A…
Green Directory
This fall TREA is moving to finalize a new version of its Green Directory, a successful program TREA has offered for several years. More recently over the last 5 years, it stepped back as EcoLiving London established a commercial listing of retailers and advertising stream, but now that is not offered so the Green…
Compost Awareness
TREA is starting to expand composting awareness efforts by attending smaller park special events in London promoting waste diversion and composting. Our thanks goes to those inviting TREA. July 2017 Newsletter
Food waste survey
Western, in conjunction with the City of London, developed a London household food waste survey to help them understand the amount and reasons why food is wasted and what leads to these behaviours. The focus is on food that could have been eaten (e.g. whole fruit, bread, leftovers etc.) rather than the parts of food…
June 3 – 100in1 Day Festival
Got an idea for TREA and can you help us with it! Let us know at volunteer@trea.ca how we can join the Urban League’s all-day festival to promote London to Londoners with 100+ fun, innovative pop-up ideas all over the city. For ideas, watch this video: