Our Mission
The Dig In! Campus Agriculture Network exists to support, empower and grow small-scale, sustainable food production at the University of Toronto. We represent a network of autonomous urban agriculture projects, rooted in particular colleges, campus organizations, and academic departments. We also maintain our own series of demonstrative food gardens and provide programming related to urban agriculture and food issues.
Goals and Objectives
Awareness
Raise awareness at UofT about food justice and agriculture issues by providing events and programming on issues including sustainable agriculture, food security, environmental policy, and community development.
Empowerment
Empower urban agriculture projects on campus through shared promotion and event collaboration, and by providing information, advice, or resources to new urban agriculture projects on campus.
Ecology
Directly contribute to urban biodiversity by transforming underutilized green space on campus into productive, food bearing gardens. Prioritize growing native species and using organic practices.
Land Acknowledgement
Dig In Campus Agriculture recognizes that processes of ecology development and land protection have historically been, and continue to be spearheaded by Indigenous stakeholders. On the land at which the University of Toronto operates, these stakeholders have primarily been members of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently the Mississaugas of the Credit River.
As an environmental student group, we aspire to follow Indigenous leadership as it relates to ecological protections; in part by cultivating native plants and promoting urban biodiversity, and in part by integrating Indigenous justice topics into our environmental advocacy. We recognize that as settler environmentalists, we are privileged in our positionality as we advocate for environmental justice, while Indigenous land defenders continue to face stronger institutional, structural resistance. We commit to mobilizing our privileged position to stand in solidarity with contemporary Indigenous land defenders.