Dufferin Grove Organic Farmers' Market

Helen Frank is a self taught seamstress from Toronto. She started making clothing for her dolls when she was 4 and has combined her love of sewing with her love for the environment in her business “Helen Mends”. Helen mends clothing and upcycles natural fiber textiles into products that replace plastics.

Our Art Hive is an inclusive space that welcomes everyone as an artist, and creates opportunities for dialogue, skillsharing, and art making between people of different backgrounds. Enjoy free access and shared resources, including the abundant materials available for creative reuse. Come join in!

Autonomous Objects is an online community of sharable items that can be passed from person to person. Let’s say you’d like to build a deck, and you need a drill for your project. Instead of purchasing a drill and then having it sit in your garage forever more (most drills get used 15 minutes a year), you can query the community to see if anyone has a drill in your neighbourhood (or search the map found here: https://goodrobot.com/bots/index.php). Then, when you’re done with your project, you can pass the drill along to the next person. Collectively, these objects are part of a sharable commons. Members of the Autonomous Objects community acts as stewards or guardians of these sharable objects: they care for the object, ensure its safety, and help make it available to others.