Community Gardens and Markets

Organization working for sustainable development, ecological transition and the promotion of culture in Montréal-Est Centre-Nord.

• Intelligent communication and citizen awareness.
• Entrepreneurship and youth.
• Project monitoring and evaluation.
• Urban agriculture.
• Arts and culture: Éco-Foire annual festival.
• Art, culture and leisure activities.
• Literary events.
• Food bank.

• Free dinners for members.
• Social and recreational activities: painting classes, pottery classes, film screenings, bingo, etc.
• Rental, sale and exchange of used adapted equipment: chairs, bath seats, crutches, etc.
• Adapted community garden.

Promoting the development of public markets in Québec.

• Support for pre-startup and startup of a public market.
• Help with relocation, redeployment and market development.
• Management training.
• Online directory of Québec's public markets.
• Online information: documentation and tools.
• Organization of the Semaine québécoise des marchés publics.

Urban farm and market garden production site aiming at social integation.

• Employability component of apprentice gardeners: development of skills related to semi-skilled trades, to social skills and to active involvement in their community.
• Training workshops: cooking, food processing, etc.
• Volunteering.
• Sale of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Food

• Distribution of food baskets every two weeks.
• Solidarity vegetable baskets: sale of vegetable baskets at low prices.
• Cooking workshops.
• Buying group.

Ecology and urban agriculture

• Collective garden.
• Training in urban agriculture.
• Socio-ecological transition.
• Book club.
• Film viewing.
• Training on climate change.

* Awareness education workshop.

Arts and culture

• Ceramic, sewing, watercolor and writing workshops.

* Workshop creation space. * Collective theater.

• Knitting: collective project.
• Life stories.

Community action

• Fight against the digital divide.
• Computer room with Internet access.
• Computer training and support.
• French conversation workshop.
• Tax clinic.

Mobilization * Self-help network.

Food assistance and mutual aid for disadvantaged individuals and families.

• Food assistance.
• Social and professional reintegration.
• Helping relationship.
• Homelessness prevention: accompaniment in finding and maintaining housing, referrals.
• Collective kitchens.
• Cooking workshop.
• Families in action: activities aimed at breaking isolation of families and strengthening family ties.
• Elders in action.
• Bien au chaud program: collection and distribution of winter clothing for children.
• Magasin-partage scolaire: distribution of school supplies.
• Magasin partage de Noël: distribution of Christmas baskets for members.
• Opération habit de neige: distribution of winter clothing.
• Community garden.

• Monthly food assistance, with delivery available for people with limited mobility.
• Community garden.
• Collective kitchen.
• Community fridge.
• Gleaning.
• Food transformation.
• Soup kitchen.
• Delivery.

Self-managed collective estate.

• Development of social projects.
• Self-managed grocery store.
• Craft brewery.
• Arcades by and for youth.
• Art school.
• Metal workshops
• Collaborative workshops: wood, bicycle, mechanics, ceramics, darkroom, photo studio, digital printing.
• Farm and gardens.
• Recyborg Recyclerie: scrap metal, ironmongery, air conditioners, household appliances, small electrical appliances, batteries, computers, bicycles, vegetable oil, bubble wrap.
• Room rental.
• Accessible artistic and social activities.
• Action-Gardien community room.
• Archives Révolutionnaires.
• Self-managed Library Corner.

• Social, recreational and educational programs: parent-child, after school, teen, young adult and senior groups.
• Room rental for community organizations.
• Summer day camp for children and teenagers.
• Un plant de tomates à la fois: collective garden.
• Respite for parents of children 6 months to 5 years old.
• Tax clinic.
• Residential snow removal.

Municipal Services

• Practical information: pets, change of address, septic systems, etc.
• Waste collection schedule: www.blainville.ca/services/environnement-et-voirie/collectes-et-matieres-residuelles

* Ecocentre.

• Notary public.
• Payment of municipal taxes.
• Building permits, complaints, and requests.
• Fire department.

Recreation

• Social and recreational activities.
• Day camp.
• Aquatic recreation centre: lifeguard training.
• Municipal library.
• Room rentals.

• Collective kitchens.
• Youth cooking classes.
• Thematic cooking classes.
• Workshops in collaboration with other community organizations.
• Community lunches.
• Community gardens.
• Mobile market.
• Community catering and frozen food service.

• Food assistance.
• Sharing store.
• Thrift store and recovery on site: used clothing and furniture.
• Collective kitchens.
• Christmas baskets.

Food security.

• Collective kitchens.
• Kitchen for processing unsold food.
• Collective gardens.
• Cooking and nutrition workshops for pregnant women and new parents (baby purées).
• Public education workshops.

  Pôle Logistique Alimentaire de Rosemont (PLAR)

• Project for the mutualization of food resources.
• Food collection of unsold items from food stores, urban agriculture surpluses and redistribution to community organizations.
• Rental of two refrigerated trucks.

• Housing: supervised apartments.
• Work experience program: pre-employability experience in an adapted work environment.
• Mutual aid group.
• Support.
• Recreational and social activities.
• Collective kitchen.
• Tai chi classes.
• Public computers.
• Social cafés.
• Recreational and social activities.
• Community dinners.
• Collective garden.

• Mutual aid group.
• Support.
• Recreational and social activities.
• Collective kitchen.
• Tai chi classes.
• Public computers.
• Social cafés.
• Recreational and social activities.
• Community dinners.
• Collective garden.

Food security programs.

• Community kitchens and food processing from gardening.
• Food security workshops and nutrition seminars.
• Kitchen workshops.
• Solidarity markets.
• Community gardens and education.
• Solidarity gardens for the benefit of food banks.
• Drop-off point for the ugly fruit and vegetables baskets second-life.ca

Support to families.

• Respite.
• French learning program for children 3 to 5 years old and animated stories.
• Avenir de Femmes program: 23-unit cooperative building for single mothers.
• Project 10-19: organisation of activities and workshops for youth.
• Secondaire à ma manière: workshops and activities for 6th graders.
• Improvisation.
• Workshops and activities.
• Francization workshop.
• Mutual aid group.
• Collective kitchen.
• Coffee chats.
• Le Vestibule: free thrift store.
• Toy library.
• Free tax counter.

Welcome and support for vulnerable families aiming for social success.

Family support

• Option protection: Partnership with the DPJ.
• Parenting enrichment programs: Ma famille mon univers, Renforcement des familles noires and Papa Impliqué enfant équilibré.
• Day camp.
• Day centre for seniors.

Academic support

• Homework help.
• Support in the use of technological tools.

Prevention and intervention

• Parent-school-youth mediation
• CPE intervention.
• Accompaniment and intervention in schools.
• Promotion of healthy relationships.

Wellness and healthy lifestyles

• Community gardens.
• Équiterre drop-off points.
• Mobilization for healthy lifestyles.

Immigration, integration and citizen needs

• Help to fill out forms and preparing documents.
• Housing search assistance.
• Listening and referral.
• Swearing of documents.
• Tax clinic.
• Psychosocial support.
• Assistance with school registration.

Collective kitchens and culinary and urban farming educational workshops.

• Collective gardens.
• Lunchbox workshops for young people.

• Collective gardens.
• Collective kitchens and culinary workshops.
• LunchBox workshops.
• Action and reflection committee on food self-sufficiency.
• Peer support for food security.

* Frontenac solidarité market (seasonal, Frontenac Station).

• Solidarity grocery store Three Baskets.
• Educational services in urban agriculture.
• Engagement program and citizen involvement place.
• Mobilization around social, environmental and political food related issues.