York University - Maloca Living Labs

Maloca Community Gardens is a campus and community collaboration in regenerative urban agriculture. With just over one-half acre, it holds over 20 small plots for community gardeners with annual applications and two 1/4 acre each communal fields situated along the Black Creek Watershed with access to ravine trails.

Maloca is stewarded by the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University’s Keele campus, Toronto and engages students and those from the neighbouring community in sustainable food growing and food justice projects as well as land learning and land (re)connection with guidance from Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge. Maloca believes in the power of being outside, learning with plants and the more-than-human and in the wellbeing, both individually and communally, that this interaction offers.

Their Mood Walks’ Program aims to encourage students and community members to find joy in learning with land while walking and tending to land in a kind of reciprocal care practice. They will be hosting walks during all seasons focusing on Fungal Foray in the woods where you could learn to identify mushrooms and how to forage responsibly and walking along Black Creek.