Paper to Praxis: Informal Growing, Stewardship & Bloordale Beach Community Gardens

As a recent Master of Planning graduate, I’m really pleased to have been awarded last month with the Minto Planning for Sustainability: Best MRP Award for the best Major Research Paper (MRP) related to sustainability. This paper, researched and written from home in the height of the pandemic, was a bit outside the box when it comes to urban planning research. I worked hard to make it practical, and I'm grateful to have been recognized and supported by Ryerson University’s (renaming in process) School of Urban and Regional Planning faculty for exploring the role that community members play in caring for plants and the earth on public land (without permission)…