Free community food garden removed by City of Toronto workers

Without any advanced notice and under orders from City of Toronto Parks Director Richard Ubbens, workers removed all live plants and food from the five month old People’s Peas Garden in Queen’s Park on Friday.

When Occupy Gardens began planting on May 1, the event was reported on by multiple media and took place under the watchful eye of police.

“So they knew it was here and left it undisturbed for almost five months,” said Jacob Kearey-Moreland, in an interview on Saturday in Queen’s Park north.

Kearey-Moreland said Occupy Gardens had erected a sign with their contact information.

“And the city workers removed the sign and told my friend who was here that they’re keeping the sign for legal purposes in case they wanted to press charges or something like that.”

But on Friday, the Globe and Mail reported that Ubbens said, “The city did not touch base with the organizers of the People's Peas Garden because it had no contact information for the group.”

The Globe and Mail also reported that “Toronto parks director Richard Ubbens said the garden was removed because it was planted illegally.”

[link to rabble.ca]

it starts, my fellow Canadians. We've heard the horror stories of american authorities preventing regular people from growing their own food, or collecting their own rain-water -- now it comes our way.