{"id":5530,"date":"2015-02-18T15:35:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T19:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2015-02-18T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T19:46:17","slug":"toronto-park-summit-five-questions-park-avenue-community-ovens-ali-shaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2015\/02\/18\/toronto-park-summit-five-questions-park-avenue-community-ovens-ali-shaver\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Summit: Five questions for Park Avenue Community Oven’s Ali Shaver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Park People\u2019s\u00a0Park Summit<\/a>\u00a0highlights the successes and opportunities of\u00a0Toronto\u2019s 1600+ parks. This year\u2019s theme,\u00a0Inspiration from Across Canada, will bring together park groups making a difference in their urban parks across the country. The 5th annual\u00a0Park Summit is on March 7, 2015.\u00a0Tickets are free<\/a>. This is the second\u00a0in a series of three Q&A\u2019s featuring speakers from the summit.\u00a0Spacing\u00a0is the Park Summit\u2019s media partner.<\/em><\/p>\n

This week we speak with Ali Shaver, a volunteer with the Park Avenue Community Oven<\/a> in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, about the joys she gets from\u00a0volunteering, the importance of food in parks, and how the oven has helped spark\u00a0new relationships in the community.\u00a0The volunteer-run community oven opened in Leighton Dillman Park on the\u00a0Dartmouth Common in 2012.<\/p>\n

JTG: We have a lot of community park volunteers in different parks all across Toronto. What made you want to get involved as a volunteer in your park and why do you think it\u2019s important for people to do so?<\/strong><\/p>\n

AS:<\/strong> I first heard about the community oven when it was just an idea in a few people\u2019s heads, but lost track of the project until I heard a stranger talking about it sitting next to me on the ferry to Halifax. I was excited to hear that the oven was nearing construction and asked if I could join the group of volunteers working to make it a reality.<\/p>\n

The project was interesting to me because I see it as a perfect way to weave together ideas about community, public spaces, growing and sharing food, and civic engagement. It was exciting to be a part of a group of volunteers working on something with the potential to have a positive impact on our community.<\/p>\n

Through my experience with the oven, I\u2019ve deepened my understanding of my community by meeting people whom I otherwise wouldn\u2019t have met and hosting groups I didn\u2019t know existed. And maybe most importantly for me, I\u2019ve found a way to volunteer in my community that is also fun for my four year old. He spends a lot of time at the oven, meeting new people, eating new food and exploring new corners of the park, allowing him a great sense of freedom and instilling in him the importance of community.<\/p>\n

What are some of the lessons that you learned from your time living in Toronto and being involved with Dufferin Grove Park that you\u2019ve taken to your parks in Dartmouth?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My first experience with the community oven at Dufferin Grove was during the 2004 event Night of Dread put on by Clay and Paper Theatre. I had lived in Toronto\u2019s west end for a few years, but had never seen the bake oven until then. I remember being a bit overwhelmed and excited by the show and parade\u2014it was so energetic, colourful, and political. After the show people handed out warm buns and soup made in the park\u2019s bake oven. It was an amazing feeling to have warm food in a public park with complete strangers. After that, I made my way to the Dufferin Grove Market most weeks to buy my groceries, but also to watch the bake oven in action. The simple idea of baking and selling bread right in the park stuck with me. I saw the bake oven as a great way to expand the static, singular use of parks from sports fields or protected areas to places with diverse and varied activities.<\/p>\n

Many park groups in Toronto are interested in food in parks, whether that\u2019s growing, cooking, or sharing of food. What do you think the community oven, and food in general, brings to parks?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I shared a community garden plot in High Park in Toronto and then gardened in the Prescott Community Garden in Halifax for years, so growing food in parks has always been important to me. The Park Avenue Community Oven is a perfect complement to and extension of the existing Dartmouth Common community gardens that allows people to cook their harvest, too.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, I think cooking and eating in a public park allows for the possibility of connection with others. The shared space breaks down barriers and facilitates conversations with strangers\u2014people whom you might not have had a chance to meet or interact with. We know this happens anyways around food, but the oven takes it to the next level. It eliminates the private space and money needed to dine out at a restaurant and allows people to share a meal with one another in a way that\u2019s more accessible and, of course, far more public. It\u2019s nice seeing people connect at the oven by sharing food, borrowing a knife, chatting about recipes, or simply by determining who\u2019s turn it is to cook next.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also amazed at the number of different groups that use the oven. We\u2019ve hosted birthday parties, wedding rehearsal dinners, the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, the Incredible Picnic Harvest Festival, a Halifax Pride Picnic, a Slow Food Nova Scotia dinner. We\u2019ve added to the attractions in Dartmouth and have diversified the use of the Dartmouth Common. I think it\u2019s wonderful that social workers and recreation and occupational therapists from the local hospital use the oven on a regular basis with patients.<\/p>\n

Something I\u2019ve come to understand only after volunteering with PACO, is that volunteerism is contagious. PACO is a 100% volunteer run group and because of this, I find that others\u2014either individuals, organizations or businesses\u2014want to help out. A nearby church provides meeting space indoors when we need it, Good Wood Fuel has donated cords of wood, and a bunch of individuals have signed up to help make the oven function\u2014whether that\u2019s lighting the fire, hosting a group, maintaining our website, fixing a broken door hinge, or piling the wood. Closing up the shelter is at least a two person job, so some times if I\u2019m left alone to close up, I need to ask someone walking by to help me out. I\u2019ve never had someone say no.<\/p>\n

\"BradyMuller_2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What are some of your favourite meals that you\u2019ve prepared in the oven?<\/strong><\/p>\n

One morning before work, my son and I went to the oven to light the fire for a group coming later. Before leaving home, I threw some things in my bag to make breakfast at the oven. While we waited for the oven to heat up, we made fried egg sandwiches and sat at the picnic table savouring them, returning to work and daycare with the smell of the wood fire lingering.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen a lot of beautiful pizzas and breads come out of the oven, but I\u2019ve also seen roasted quail, filet mignon, slow dried tomatoes, pretzels, enchiladas, cookies, and hot chocolate. I pick up a ton of cooking tips and inspiration for new cooking adventures from the strangers I meet in the park. A friend wants to make her own paprika this summer and I\u2019d like to try making beef jerky.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your relationship like with the city? Have you encountered many challenges to cooking food for people in a park oven as a group of volunteers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The road hasn\u2019t always been smooth. We\u2019ve definitely had our challenges, from working through insurance issues and dealing with calls to the fire department because of smoke in the park, to concerns from neighbours about the number of picnic tables around the oven.<\/p>\n

But for the most part, I\u2019d have to say that our relationship with the municipality is pretty great. Our local councillor, Gloria McCluskey, provided the funding to construct the oven and shelter and to purchase supplies needed to get us going\u2014pizza peels, wood, etc. We were lucky to work closely with the former Parks Superintendent for Halifax Regional Municipality, Brian Phelan, who was incredible at helping us navigate the municipal system. Unfortunately, Brian retired a few months after PACO opened, so we\u2019ve had to spend a bit of time building new relationships with municipal staff. Our councillor continues to champion the project and connects us with staff who have helped with issues from signage, garbage, and water access to special event permits and working to have washroom facilities brought back to the park. Last fall we partnered with the Sierra Club of Canada and the Municipality to plant the first urban orchard in the region.<\/p>\n

The health inspectors and fire department have also been great. We make sure food is kept at a safe temperature and that people wash their hands before cooking. We also connected with a few local fire stations before we opened to let them know about the oven.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re entering our fourth season, so many issues have been worked out, making each season a bit easier than the last. We are slowly building the number of volunteers trained to use the oven which means we can accommodate more and more event requests.<\/p>\n

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This is the second\u00a0in a series of three Q&A\u2019s featuring speakers from the\u00a0Toronto\u00a0Park Summit<\/a>. The first was with Malcolm Bromley<\/a>, General Manager of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation. This year\u2019s theme,\u00a0Inspiration from Across Canada, will bring together park groups making a difference in their urban parks across the country. Hear\u00a0more from Ali Shaver at the\u00a02015 Toronto Park Summit<\/a>\u00a0on March 7th.\u00a0Tickets are free<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ABOUT ALI SHAVER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ali Shaver is a volunteer with the Park Avenue Community Oven and spends a lot of her free time in the Dartmouth Common lighting fires, cooking food, chasing her son and meeting her neighbours. When not volunteering, Ali is an Urban Planner with Public Health Service where she is working\u00a0with her municipal planning colleagues to embed population health outcomes in municipal plans, develop a complete streets policy, and create community design guidelines for new communities. As a member of the Halifax Food Policy Alliance, she is particularly interested in exploring ways in which local governments can support food security through municipal plans and policies. Ali moved to the east coat in 2006 and now lives with her family in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.<\/em><\/p>\n

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