01 Sep Local Garlic, Global Wisdom: Kitchen Lessons from St. Jamestown – Josephine Grey, 1:00 to 1:25 pm
Join Josephine Grey from the St. Jamestown Community Co-op as she shares clever, practical tips to reduce food waste, preserve flavour (like dehydrated garlic!), and cook with every part of the plant. Along the way, Josephine shares knowledge from the most globally diverse community in the world—right here in Toronto—where newcomers bring valuable food wisdom that’s helping reshape our collective future.
BIO: Josephine Grey is a human rights organizer engaged in community development for 35 years. She is also a widowed single parent mother and grandmother who lives in social housing. In 1986 she co-founded LIFT-Low Income Families Together, a resource ngo that incubates community-based projects. Jo is a Founding Director of Food share, The Income Security Advocacy Centre, the St. James Town Community Co-operative, Democracy Watch and Project Esperance, a 111 unit building for domestic abuse survivors. Her work as an advocate and organizer has taken her to the UN, World Social Forums and communities across 7 continents. Currently, she is on the board of the Local Food and Farm co-op (Ontario), and the Eco-just Food Network, and is leading the development of the OASIS food hub pilot project for the St James Town.
