The Growing Chefs! Ontario (GCO) mission is to get kids excited about healthy, wholesome food. Our belief is that engaging  food education programs for children can catalyze the evolution of a healthier, empowered community that is engaged with its food system. GCO will hire three (3) Youth Food Education Assistants for May-August (or early September), 2018 to partner in this mission.

Summer Student, Outreach & Community Coordinator – Lake Erie & Thames River
London, ON. 2 positions, 8 weeks (start date July 3rd, negotiable)
4 days/week, 30 hours/week
$15.00/hour

A rallying cry is again rising in the Forest City - a call to beauty, reflected by such serene emerald hearts as London’s city parks - a call that asks us to see them as they should be, and act to make it so.

In the heart of the city – some wretched stretch of land lays dormant, abandoned – divested of all meaning - asleep in the midst of bleak dreams.  But where one sees desolate vacancy, a barren waste, another sees a paradise as yet grown, an opportunity “for something better,” as Founding Director Richie Bloomfield from Urban Roots explains.

But what is Urban Roots exactly?