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News & Announcements 2007
October
posted Oct. 21, 2007
Buy a pumpkin at the market, and join us for one last event this season on October 27, starting at 10 a.m.: carve your own pumpkin with us. This is a fun activity for all ages, just in time to scare it up for Halloween!
We will have some carving tools at hand, and... be prepared to go home with pumpkin seeds.
September
posted Sept. 28, 2007
The Urban Heirloom Harvest Fest was a great success, and for your benefit (for remembrance, or to show you what you've missed if you weren't able to make it) we've posted pictures.
Toronto Community Garden Network lunch table
the hustle and bustle of a festive market
Dufferin Grove Bakers with temporary oven
Perth-Dupont Community Garden
Cathy's Crawlies and Canadian Organic Growers' Toronto chapter
Green Gardeners and Seeds of Diversity Canada
showcasing local talent
festival and market goers enjoying lunch in the shade
kids getting hands-on with dough
posted Sept. 21, 2007
Despite the summer-like weather, Thanksgiving is just a couple of weeks away, and Weber's Pasture Raised Meats are taking orders for turkeys now! Also available are lamb, veal, chicken, ducks, pork and beef, and you can also order eggs laid by free range hens.
Please see details for the Urban Heirloom Harvest Fest below the event announcement!
posted Sept. 11, 2007
The WITHROW PARK FARMERS’ MARKET &
The TORONTO COMMUNITY GARDEN NETWORK
are inviting you to the 2nd annual
URBAN HEIRLOOM HARVEST FEST!
Saturday September 22, 2007
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Rain or Shine!
(please note that the market will start at its usual time, 9 a.m.).
ONTARIO ARTISANAL CHEESES
EDIBLE WEEDS WORKSHOP
TCGN LUNCH TABLE
SEED SAVING WORKSHOPS
FRESH BAKED GOODS FROM THE ON-SITE OVEN
ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS, AND MUCH MORE!
Visit this site frequently for the next week for the latest event updates.
Special features:
- 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. - TCGN fundraising lunch (suggested donations will be announced at event); taste some of the foods prepared with donated produce from community gardens across Toronto!
- 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Art and Craft show with Breeze and Barbara Lewis (jewelry), Doug Mighton (painted glass windows), Lynn Heath and Alison Brennan (pottery), and Pamela (mask maker and garden stones).
- 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Dufferin Grove bake oven demo and baked goods
- 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Ontario artisanal cheeses and cured meats featured by the Leslieville Cheese Market
Workshops:
- 11 a.m. to noon - Edible Weeds by Dagmar Baur
- 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. and 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. - Seed Saving with Roberta Stimac
Childrens' activities:
- 10 a.m. to 1p.m. - art table
- time to be announced - cheese rolling
- 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. - hula hoops
Our thanks go to our supporters: The Big Carrot, The Cook’s Place, Treasure Island Toys, City of Toronto: Parks, Recreation and Forestry, Magic Oven, ManoRun Farm, Toronto Sprout Co., FoodShare, PARGAR (Plant a Row Grow a Row), Seeds of Diversity Canada, Leslieville Cheese Market, Toronto Green Community, Green Gardeners Inc., TCGN and its members, and countless volunteers who have poured their hearts and minds into making this event happen!
And just a friendly reminder that the market starts at 9 a.m.
posted Sept. 12, 2007
The details of the Urban Heirloom Harvest Fest are slowly coming together, and some changes from our Aug. 31 post need to be made:
Weeds, weeds, wonderful weeds! Gardening and culinary weed expert Dagmar Baur will enlighten gardeners and other workshop participants on the wonderful virtues of the maligned weed. Learn about the many uses of weeds as food, medicine, mulch and green manure. Learn how to identify weeds, and how they act as soil indicators.
Unfortunately educator and cheese connoisseur extraordinaire Julia Rogers won't be able to join the festivities, but no worries, there will be cheese, represented by the Leslieville Cheese Market.
Seeds of Diversity Canada member and urban gardener Roberta Stimac will show you how to save seeds of a few common vegetable varieties, and perhaps send you off with a rotten tomato, or a couple of seeds.
Please note that the workshop time table will be posted at the event, but that most of the other activities will be ongoing from 10 a.m. We also changed the event end time from 2 p.m. to 1 p.m.
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