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Urban food activist works towards a healthy local food system
Rhonda Teitel-Payne, Urban Agriculture Manager, The Stop Community Food Centre

Rhonda Teitel-Payne is a food activist with a long history of involvement in urban gardening and agricultural movements in Toronto. Since 1999, she has run the urban agriculture programming at The Stop Community Food Centre. With The Stop’s recent growth and 2009 expansion into the new Wychwood Green Barn, she has been promoted to be their new Urban Agriculture Manager.

Rhonda is passionate about developing programs that promote both individual and social change around food issues, and promoting attitudes, actions, and understandings of what constitutes healthy food and a strong local food system.

She is using the Vital People grant to travel to community garden and urban agricultural projects across North America in order to gain intensive knowledge of what other groups and individuals are doing. She will use these learnings to design and implement projects in Toronto and consult on urban food issues.

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