KarunaNews Story

A year after Cheyenne Sundance started her own urban farm in north Toronto and then began offering a paid farm-school program to pass on what she had learned, she noticed most attendees were racialized youth from underprivileged backgrounds who struggled to afford the program. Now Sundance Commons, the non-profit arm of her for-profit Sundance Harvest farm, has a free training program to teach young people practical skills and how to start their own farms. At four farm locations within an hour of Toronto, participants learn to operate tractors, prepare beds, compost, keep bees, raise poultry, operate irrigation systems, and grow a variety of crops. At program's end, they can potentially gain access to land to kick-start their own operations.