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Located near Thunder Bay
Distance: 200km
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Offers young people the opportunity to engage meaningfully in the food system as growers, market gardeners and lifelong learners
Provides employment and experiential education opportunities to young people who face barriers to success in these areas, including the following:
Provides employment and experiential education opportunities to young people who face barriers to success in these areas, including the following:
- S.H.O.W. (Seasonal Horticultural Outdoor Worker) Program - hires youth aged 18-30 for 5-month long contracts growing food throughout the Thunder Bay area, providing general employment training skills
- Urban Youth Farm Program - in partnership with the Lakehead District Shool Board, high school students aged 16-18 are hired for 7 weeks in July and August to build employment skills and get co-op credits for running one of the Urban Garden sites and working with local farmers
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- Collaborates with local gardeners to involve children in learning gardening techniques
- Adopts a row in a participating resident's garden which is planted and tended to by the child and family participants
- Donates fresh vegetables to local food bank annually
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Community Gardens
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- Provides a garden that community members plant, tend and harvest together for a fresh food supply
- Growing season runs from May to September; dependent upon weather
- All gardens coordinated through volunteer efforts and always looking for available volunteers
- Accept donations of cash and gardening items including seeds, bulbs, perennials, fertilizers, mulching materials, equipment and supplies such as hand tools, garden hoses, wheel barrows, watering cans, flower pots, gloves and kneeling pads
- Donates any surplus produce to local food programs
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Bronte Creek Provincial Park
Ontario Parks (camping reservations only) 1-888-668-7275 Office 905-827-6911 ; Camping 905-827-3228
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Services altered in response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
Limited services available, see website for the most up-to-date information
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A 682 hectare provincial park that includes:
Day use and hiking trails (Burloak Drive entrance)
Campground
* open May to Oc
* access via Bronte Rd and Upper Middle Rd
Fishing
Outdoor sports facilities
* rollerblading, 18-hole Disc golf course, basketball courts, baseball diamond
Winter activities
* toboggan hill, cross-country skiing
Garden plots - available for rent
Nature Centre
* open May to Sept
* educational facility with live animals and hands on displays
Spruce Lane Farmhouse
* museum built in 1899
* open Victoria Day (in May) to Sep
Park store/snack bar (in day use area)
* sells merchandise and rents equipment
* seasonal hours
Picnic areas and shelters (in day use area)
* picnic tables and 11 shelters with a barbecue on site
* shelter MUST be reserved
Play barn and Children's farm (in day use area)
* sheltered play area for kids 10 yrs and under
* see a variety of farm animals
* open year round (except Christmas Day)
Discovery School Program
* park staff visit your class to lead curriculum linked education programs
* for more information visit ontarioparks.com/discovery
Limited services available, see website for the most up-to-date information
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A 682 hectare provincial park that includes:
Day use and hiking trails (Burloak Drive entrance)
Campground
* open May to Oc
* access via Bronte Rd and Upper Middle Rd
Fishing
Outdoor sports facilities
* rollerblading, 18-hole Disc golf course, basketball courts, baseball diamond
Winter activities
* toboggan hill, cross-country skiing
Garden plots - available for rent
Nature Centre
* open May to Sept
* educational facility with live animals and hands on displays
Spruce Lane Farmhouse
* museum built in 1899
* open Victoria Day (in May) to Sep
Park store/snack bar (in day use area)
* sells merchandise and rents equipment
* seasonal hours
Picnic areas and shelters (in day use area)
* picnic tables and 11 shelters with a barbecue on site
* shelter MUST be reserved
Play barn and Children's farm (in day use area)
* sheltered play area for kids 10 yrs and under
* see a variety of farm animals
* open year round (except Christmas Day)
Discovery School Program
* park staff visit your class to lead curriculum linked education programs
* for more information visit ontarioparks.com/discovery
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Gardening information service offered by phone, in person, or by submitting a question online
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