Monthly Archives: May 2021

We Approve of June

We approve of june

Hello Market Friends: When someone at the market depot does something exceptional, they earn a cartwheel from Nicole Jacobs. With all the spectacular produce our growers are bringing in, I am worried that she will get worn out this week! Visit the Web Shop We’ve got lettuces so lovely they could inspire a sonnet, a spread of healthy farm-grown […]

Birds’ Eye View News

Birds' eye view news

Hello Market Friends: Hope you are enjoying the long weekend! We are really excited to welcome a new vendor this week, Audrey Macdonald, the remarkable woman behind The Greenhouse Eatery. Audrey farms on TRCA land at The McVean Farm in Brampton, and uses what she grows as the basis of her ‘Farm to Fork’ menu. When we move back to the park (some […]

News from the Green Room

News from the green room

Hello Market Friends: In the photo above you’ll see most, but not all, of our cracker-jack team. Some members weren’t present, and the brilliant sunshine caused me to crop a couple more out of our group photo, taken at our weekly mini-meeting before the pickers, packers, runners, delivery team and captains all swing into focused […]

Food and Community

Food and community

photo by Seth Goering Dear Market Friends: First, the Spring Food Headlines: We’ve got fiddleheads from Forbes and Summergreen, wild leeks in abundance from Green Florin, a few more tender bunches of early asparagus from Reye’s, and an incredible selection of tender spring greens from Marvellous Edibles and Plan B! GO SPRING! Now, on to the Food for Thought section of our news: Forgive me; I have told […]