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Zawadi Connections builds community food infrastructure. Your support — whether dollars, time, space, or institutional access — funds the build phase. Funders make the systems possible. Partners deploy them. Communities receive the benefit.
Your donation funds the building of infrastructure that lasts beyond any single program cycle. The curriculum a teacher uses every year. The kitchen a food entrepreneur accesses every week. The farm that stewards 5 acres of Toronto conservation land every season. Zawadi Connections Inc. is a registered not-for-profit organization. Every dollar stays in Toronto.
Donate NowLicensed kitchen access at Richview Industrial Kitchen
Vermicomposting and food literacy workshops for Toronto schools
Land stewardship through our TRCA partnership (ZLSI)
Community gatherings including the Nomadic Supper series
Zawadi Connections’ infrastructure is built by people — educators, farmers, community organizers, and neighbours who show up. Volunteers support planting days at Zawadi Farm, workshop facilitation, Nomadic Supper events, and community outreach. Your time is part of the infrastructure.
Farm planting and harvest days, seasonal, at Downsview Park
Workshop facilitation support for vermicomposting and soil health sessions
Event support for the Nomadic Supper series
Community outreach and neighbourhood liaison
Zawadi Connections partners with institutions that have space, reach, or resources that can be activated for community food benefit. The Richview Kitchen model, the TRCA stewardship model, and the TDSB curriculum deployment model are all examples of what institutional partnership with Zawadi looks like in practice. If your organization has an underused kitchen, land, or programmatic reach — we want to talk.
Kitchen partnerships — license your commercial kitchen for community food programming, modelled on Richview Residence
School partnerships — bring Zawadi workshops into your school, modelled on TDSB EcoSchools
Land partnerships — steward agricultural land together, modelled on our TRCA agreement
Event partnerships — host or co-present a Nomadic Supper in your space
If you are looking for kitchen access, market connections, or community distribution in Toronto, Zawadi Connections was built to serve you — with particular attention to farmers from racialized and immigrant communities who have been historically underserved by food system infrastructure.
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