Urban Agriculture Week starts tomorrow!
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Rhonda Teitel-Payne
Sep 19, 2025, 4:12:13 PMSep 19
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Hi TUGgers,Happy Toronto Urban Agriculture Week 2025!Can anyone tell me how to be in two places at once? So many great events this weekend!!More details about each event are on https://uaweekto.wordpress.com/city-wide-events-2025/Please remember to like and share UA Week posts on Facebook and Instagram. Let's get your wonderful work out there!Saturday, September 20 8 am to 1 pmEvergreen Brick
Works Saturday Farmers Market550 Bayview AveVisit Toronto’s largest year-round farmers market and shop directly from local urban farmers like Wild by Nature, Crooked Farmz, Neighbours Feeding Neighbours, andSasa Naturals (part of FoodShare’s Youth Grown Collective).Saturday September 20 10am-2pmCelebrate the Autumn Open House Weekend with the Friends ofAllan Gardens!Allan Gardens Children's Teaching Garden, 19 HorticulturalAve. by Jarvis and CarltonJoin us in our newly renovated Teaching Garden for someautumn-themed garden fun! There will be tours and garden advice from localurban gardeners and volunteers. Learn about seed saving, vermicomposting,garlic growing & microgreens through our drop-in demonstrations. We willalso have some autumn-themed crafts for kids! Children welcome with parental orguardian supervision.FreeSaturday, September 20 11:00 am - 3:00 pm17th Annual Harvest Festival Scarborough Village Community GardenFred Johnson Park, 3630 Kingston Rd., just east of Markhamand KingstonThere will be a smudging ceremony at 11. Following that willbe arts activities, a Steel pan drumming performance, garden tours with free vegetables for all, Monarch Butterfly demo, Face painting, Scavenger Hunts, prizes and snacks. Rain date Sept 27.Free
Garden Workshop “Harvest Techniques”Saturday, September 20 11:00 AM - 12:30 PMGarden Workshop “Harvest Techniques”CICS Community Garden, 2330 Midland AvenueLanguage: English & ChineseWorkshop Content:
- How to identify ripeness in fruits and vegetables.
- Proper harvesting tools and techniques.
- How to avoid plant damage during harvest.
- Best practices for post harvest care and storage.
This workshop is free to join! (Limited spotsavailable.)Register here: https://forms.gle/k57shhhhLKeCAxBF8Saturday, September 20 1:00 pm onwardsJewel's Garden of Wondersnear Eglinton West stationSee agronomist Jewel’s experiments in growing food and reducing waste. Jewel collects seeds and plants from around the globe, testing them out in her garden and making colourful herbal teas and cocktails (she’s a bartender too!).Learn how to build the health of your soil with winter crops like Austrian winter peas and fall rye seeds. Take home some seeds to try in your garden! Please register for tour address: https://forms.gle/9Yce6umwFdZfhkmU6.
Sunday, September 21 11 am - 2 pmSweet Grass RootsBlack Creek Community Farm, 4929 Jane St. Teachings about Indigenous medicines and plants, earth work and arts. Participants can get their hands dirty in the Indigenous Medicine Garden. Explore flower pressing and dyes using Wendat Sunflowers. Harvest medicines and make tea. Free
Sunday, September 21 12:30 p.m.Fall Equinox Ceremony at Noojimo'iwewin Gitigaan National Healing Forest Project729 St. Clair Ave. W. at Rushton RoadElder-in-Residence Peduhbun Migizi Kwe/Dr. Catherine Brooks will lead Ceremony around the Sacred Fire, acknowledging the generosity of the Land and Waters and our PlantRelatives as well as the beginning of the National Week of Truth and Reconciliation.FreeRhonda Teitel-Payne (she/her)Co-coordinatorToronto Urban Growers@TOurbangrowers #iGrowTO
Celebrate Toronto-grown food and the people who grow it!
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