Urban Agriculture Strategy
The City of Mississauga’s Parks, Forestry & Environment Division is working towards creating an urban agriculture strategy that will help identify the City’s role in supporting Corporate and community efforts to increase urban-scale food production across Mississauga.
Through the strategy, the City of Mississauga will work to encourage healthier lifestyles, empower the community to learn new skills about growing and harvesting produce and support local businesses with ties to urban agriculture.
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Urban Hen Program Public Engagement
As part of the consultations underway for the development of an Urban Agriculture Strategy, the City of Mississauga is launched a public engagement campaign to determine the receptiveness of a city-wide Urban Hen Program.
Information Learn more about backyard hens and what a Mississauga program would look like by checking out our information sheet and FAQs.
Public Survey Closed
Urban Hen Pilot Program Mississauga City Council approved a small pilot program of 10 households in wards 3, 5 and 6. Read the news release.
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What do you think should be included in the vision statement? Tell us below!
View All Ideasover 1 year ago
Re instate some farming and agriculture in our city. The pandemic has shown us how importan to be self reliant regarding food security
over 1 year ago
More community gardens
over 1 year ago
Educate, empower and elevate
Focus on the 3 Es for sustainable living: - Educate residents on ways they can get involved in agricultural initiatives starting from their own backyards to community parks and beyond - Empower the residents with tools and laws that allow them to effectively execute the activities on this journey. A good example could be revision of law allowing backyard chicken - Elevate the quality of living of the residents through the above initiatives that can be measured and improved.
over 1 year ago
Encourage and enable homeowners to transform front and back lawns into urban farms and edible gardens.
over 1 year ago
Encourage people to adopt a more plant based diet and become more self sufficient.
Easy access to fresh produce should influence the community to eat more plant based which is very important for reducing environmental impacts created by animal agricultural industries. With climate change as an ever growing threat, everyone should understand the importance of becoming more self sufficient and growing your own food is a great way to begin this process. Furthermore, to compliment urban agriculture setups there should be community composting opportunities so that food can be grown naturally/chemical free. This will also aid in reducing food waste (hopefully) that would otherwise be thrown out and sent to landfills.
