Harvest Wednesdays Partners

-First Harvest-

Producer Partners Chick a Biddy Acres

Located: Near Peterborough in the Trent Hills
Sherry and her farm inspired the Harvest Wednesday series, with Gladstone purchasing four shares of Chick a Biddy’s CSA. Sherry grows a plethora of fresh produce, as well as naturally raises heritage breeds of Tamworth pigs, Black Angus Beef and pasture-raised lamb. She also offers free-range chickens and eggs.

S cotch Mountain Meats
Located: in Meaford Ontario in the northern region of Grey County near Georgian Bay
Natural, open pastured pork, lamb and beef.

CIPM Farm
Located: Sterling Ontario
CIPM is a certified organic cash crop operation, growing spelt, rye, spring wheat, buckwheat, soybeans, flax, hemp, oats and a heritage grain of red fife wheat. Red Fife Wheat, a variety brought to Canada from Scotland by David Fife in 1842. CIPM and a number of other farms have worked together to preserve the small amount of seed and once again it is stone milled into a whole grain flour using the entire grain. Red Fife Wheat, is also on Slow Food Canada’s Ark of Taste, which to put it simply, highlights foods that need to be preserved as they are or were close to becoming extinct.

St. John’s Bakery
Location: Toronto
They will be providing delicious samples of fresh baked bread. St. John’s Baker is one of Toronto’s finest and unique bakeries. They bake breads and sweats made with certified organic flours and ingredients. The bakery also uses CIMP’s flours and grains. St. John’s Bakery works to support an inclusive community.

Kawartha Ecological Growers
Location: Kawarthas
KEG is a co-operation of farms in the Kawarthas, that together, produce a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, cut flowers, herbs, eggs and meats (many of which are heirloom varieties, as well as maple syrup, honey, flour, pickles and preserves. Mark Trealout, a leader and producer of Grassroot Organics and founder of KEG is a rule leader in our food community and member of Slow Food Toronto.

Match Box Gardens and Seed Co.
Location: Brampton
They produce locally grown, rare and heirloom variety seedlings, seed, vegetables, herbs and edible flowers. Hanna and the team from Matchbox come from a Program called New Farmers with Farmstart, which helps young farmers learn about farming, planning, budgeting as well as provides incubator land for farming. As an advocate of city gardening they also offer landscape services with a focus on native and edible plants.

Monforte Dairy
Location: New location of Dairy – Stratford
Ruth Klahsen head cheese maker and owner of Monforte is, a long-standing partner of Gladstone. She believes in, sustainable practices, high quality cheese which helps to support the producers she works with. She is in the process of building a new dairy where she can make her infamous sheep’s milk cheeses. Monforte is introducing a CSA subscribers program, where you can invest in a share of her dairy now, where you will receive an equivalent amount of cheese once her dairy is open over a certain period of tem helping to establish a business model that should spearhead meaningful growth in micro-production, in the future. Food politics at its best!

Forbes Wild Foods

Forbes Wild Foods provides wild and foraged foods in fresh, dried and jarred form. They forage all products using sustainable and traditional methods, ensuring the future of these foods as well as respecting the environment they were grown in. Forbes has everything from, rose water, to spruce tips to Saskatoon berries. They harvest their unique foods in remote regions across the country.

Under Ground Organics
Location: Hamilton
Shane and his partners, grow vegetables, herbs and most of all beautiful local fine and wild flowers in all varieties and colours imaginable. They never use chemical fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides or fungicides. The farm is Certified Organic.

Guerrilla Gourmet
Location: Toronto
Maria is involved with urban agriculture, harvesting teas from local herbs and flowers. Maria makes teas from the items she forages and harvests as well as prepares soaps and bath products. Maria also hosts dinner parties, where guests prepsre their own facil products and then enjoy a dinner prepared with local produce. Guerrilla Gourmet also partners with Shane from Under Ground Organics and they will be sharing a table.

Kernal Peanuts
Location: Norfolk
Yes, we grow peanuts in Ontario! Kernal Peanuts is the largest peanut farm in Canada. Once a thriving tobacco farm, Ernie and Nancy transformed the land into a peanut farm, where they now grow Valencia Peanuts. In addition to peanuts of all preparations and flavours, Kernal Peanuts also produces peanut butters, fudge and trail mixes.

Kupecz Family Farm
Location: Sterling
The Kupecz family raises grass-fed lamb (wool available), cornish hens, pheasants and hens. They also grow apples! They are LFP (local food plus) certified, use non-GMO feed and do not use any herbicides or pesticides on their land.

Bob Baloch
Location: Brampton
Bob Grows spinach, radishes, eggplants, okra, carrots, peppers and much much more. He is running his farm under the Farmstart incubator program which allows him to initiate his farm with the necessary support and land. Bob’s farm on one of Toronto’s Regional Heritage sites where the land has never been exposed to pesticides or herbicides.

Urban Harvest
Location: Toronto
Urban Harvest is dedicated to providing seedlings, plants and feed that promote ecological diversity and preserve the health of the environment. Seeds and plants are all organic and of the heirloom variety. All seedlings are grown in or near the greater Toronto area to support the local economy.

Brooks Farms
Location: Mount Albert
Brooks Farm is a family run farm that has been past down through generations for 150 years. They host a pick your own strawberry and raspberry farm, grow asparagus, sweet peas, pumpkins and more.

Cookstown Greens
Location: Cookstown
Cookstown Greens is one of the most well known organic farms in Ontario among local chefs. They grow impeccable, greens, edible flowers, spring vegetables, salad greens and much more. David Cohlmeyer is extremely involved with the local food movement in Ontario and is an advocate for local sustainable agriculture and a strong supporter of new young farmers.

Community Partners

100 Km Foods
Location: Toronto
100Km Foods is a distribution system bringing local food from sustainable farms in Ontario to restaurants and food establishments in the City. Gladstone has been a long-standing partner of 100Km Foods and has helped initiate new relationships with many producers for Harvest Wednesdays.

Not Far From The Tree (NFFTT)
Location: Toronto
NFFTT is an initiative that organizes fruit picking of residential homes in Toronto. A portion of the fruit picked goes to the homeowner, (if they would like it), the people who have picked the fruit and the rest is donated to a community agency. Now in its second year, NFFTT has grown and gained wide spread support.

Westend Food Co-op (WEFC)
Location: Toronto
WEFC helps promote food security within the west-end of Toronto, by creating community driven food initiatives working towards a full service grocery store that focuses on selling products that are ecological, sustainable, local and healthy. The WEFC also coordinates the Sorauren Farmers’ Market.

Local Food Plus (LFP)
Location: Toronto
LFP is an award winning non-profit organization that provides certification for producers and processors. Standards for certification highlights the farm’s or processor’s economic, social, and environmental practices. The process for certification is a formal process where LFP brings in a third party to evaluate an application for certification which is thoroughly investigated. LFP also identifies producers and processors with local purchasers.

FoodShare
Location: Toronto
Foodshare focuses on food systems, from growing, processing, distribution, food purchasing, cooking and consumption. They operate grassroots projects that are driven by educational and food security issues that promote projects on healthy eating, teach food preparation and cultivation, develop community capacity and create non-market forms of food distribution.

Green Enterprise Toronto (GET)
Location: Toronto

GET is a local network of locally-owned businesses, manufacturers, service providers, food and beverage sources. Members of GET have a focus of building a green economy.

Slow Food Toronto
Slow Food Toronto is volunteer, membership driven movement founded in Italy in reaction to fast food culture that has graduated to an International movement. The three basic principles of Slow Food are Good Clean Fair. Slow Food Toronto believes that access to good, clean, fair food is an irrevocable human right and works towards building food community networks that include producers, artisans, chefs, food activists, youth leadership, and co-producers* (consumers).

Field Trip
Location: Toronto
Megan and Sarah started Field Trip this year after experience working on organic farms. They partner with Mapleton’s Organic Farm, Cookstown Greens and Everdale Farm, bringing “city folk” into the country on day farm tour trips.

The Good Egg
Location: Toronto
The Good Egg a fabulous bookstore in Kensington Market is a destination spot. Mika carries fabulous books, many of which focus on the related issues surrounding Harvest Wednesdays. The store also sells food related works by local artists, cooking tools and other truly beautiful items. The Good Egg also offers small cooking classes.

Beverage Partners

Steam Whistle Brewery
Location: Toronto
Steam Whistle uses only four, all natural ingredients (pure spring water, malted barley, hops and yeast), all GMO-free. Steam Whistle uses the unique green glass bottle which is made with 30% more glass. This means the same bottle can potentially be washed, inspected and refilled up to 35 times – about twice as many as the industry standard brown bottle. They also use Bullfrog power, have energy efficient lighting and water systems, just to name a few of their mindful initiatives. They will be offering their one and only beer, their Pilsner which is a refreshing golden and bright beer.

Norman Hardie Winery
Location: Prince Edward County
Norman Hardie has a selection of County Pinot Noir 07, Riesling 07, Pinot Gris 08 and Melon de Bourgogne 08. Norman Hardie’s wines are well known in Ontario and he is extremely involved in local food issues in Prince Edward County.

Flat Rock Cellars
Location: Jordan
Flat Rock Cellars offers Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Riesling. They produce low yields, progressive viticulture practices and hand picking and sorting the grapes. Gladstone carries Flat Rock wines.

Black Oak Brewery
Location: Etobicoke
Black Oak Brewery handcrafts, slow brewed, all natural beers that are created in small batches. They offer a Pale Ale and a Nut Brown Ale that are Gold Metal Winners in the National Great Canadian Brewing Awards. They also create some limited award winning seasonal beers.

Speaker: Mary Wiens
Mary Wiens is a Producer at CBC radio one in Toronto. Her work can be heard on Metro Morning. Mary is a strong advocate for local sustainable food in our community and has worked and moderated events with The Toronto Food Policy Council, Local Food Plus and hosted The Growing Up Organic Conference.

-Summer Harvest-

Producer Partners

Chick a Biddy Acres
Located: Near Peterborough in the Trent Hills
Sherry and her farm inspired the Harvest Wednesday series, with Gladstone purchasing four shares of Chick a Biddy’s CSA. Sherry grows a plethora of fresh produce, as well as naturally raises heritage breeds of Tamworth pigs, Black Angus Beef and pasture-raised lamb. She also offers free-range chickens and eggs.

Whole Earth Farms Studio
Located: Hastings
Contact: Montana Jones
Email: farm@wholearth.com

Wholearth Farmstudio is a hopeful partnership of sustainable agri“CULTURE”, inspiration, nature conservation, compassion and creativity. They’re dedicated to traditional ‘slow food’ principles, by conserving rare heritage breeds & heirloom seeds with care & producing a superior ‘real taste’ experience for the table. They raise rare Shropshire lamb; pastured Tamworth pork; Jersey Giant chickens, Bourbon Red turkeys (all which happen to be on the Slow Food Ark of Taste List), Wishard Strain Bronze Heritage turkeys; eggs, berries, vegetables & more. They are dedicated to sustainability principles & non-toxic practices, with no place for synthetics, growth hormones, herbicides, chemical fertilizers or confinement agriculture. Their animals are raised naturally, free-ranging outdoors in grassy meadows. Their first annual Wholearth Heritage Harvest Feast is coming up…a field-to-table food celebration, with superchef Jamie Kennedy & top local chefs creating a memorable outdoor dining experience with ingredients grown on their farm. If you’d like to reserve a place at the table visit http:www/wholearth.com .

Grass Roots Organics
Location: Desboro Ontario
Grass Roots Organics– Eco Farms and Market, Grass Roots Organics produce grains and meats that have been grown organically, free from GMOs, without the use of herbicides, pesticides, or commercial fertilizers. They offer organic red fife wheat, spelt, rye ,whole wheat, barley, oats, peas and corn. Cereals and pastas made with the flours they grow are available at their on-site farm store.

Rising Sun Bakery and Wiarton Farmers’ Market
Rising Sun Bakery is a small-scale bakery serving Wiarton and the surrounding area. Kelsey, who is also Market Manager of the Wiarton Farmers’ Market, relies on Grass Roots Organics’ grains and flours to make her delicious country bread.

Barrie Hill Farms
Location: Barrie
Barrie Hill Farms is LFP certified family friendly pick your own farm. They offer delicious strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, asparagus and peas. Barrie Hill Farms fruits are distributed through 100 Km Foods, where many of Toronto’s chefs use Morris’s produce in their dishes. Barrie Hill Farm will be sharing a table with Local Food Plus.

Wild Rose Farm and Artist Retreat
Location: Grey Bruce County
Wild Rose Farm grows organic honey, mulberries, tomatoes, wild edibles such as lamb’s quarters, purse lane, wild mushrooms and other delicious items. Wild Rose distributes to Karma Co-op and Farmers’ Markets in her own community.

The New Farm
Location: Creemore
The New Farm is a five year old family run organic vegetable farm, offering heirloom varieties of salad greens, peppers, garlic, carrots, beets and much much more. Brent and Gill initiated the New Farm from scratch and are careful to nurture the soil, respect the land to ensure vitality in their faring for years to come.

Fifth Town
Location: Prince Edward County
The Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Company is an environmentally and socially responsible enterprise positioned as a niche producer of fine hand made cheeses using fresh, locally produced goat and sheep milk. Their product development processes reflects the spirit of the Fifth Town brand which aims to integrate traditional methods and craftsmanship ethics with local terroir.

Forbes Wild Foods

Eco Flora
Location: Toronto
Eco Flora is a Toronto based online florist offering exclusively ecologically grown flowers with a contemporary design style. They offer their services year round in the Toronto area. Eco Flora uses wildcrafted, certified organic, organic and fair trade flowers without the additional floral chemicals. Their arrangements are made in containers that are made in Canada, the US or fairly traded, with an emphasis on Canadian made pottery and glass from local artists. Eco Flora is a partner of Green Enterprise Toronto.

Fun Guy Mushrooms
Location: Toronto
Fun Guy Mushrooms offers the fresh and delicious wild and cultivated mushrooms in many varieties. They also sell logs that home gardeners can cultivate themselves. Fun Guy Mushrooms are at the Brick works Farmer’s Market, Wychwood Barns, Riverdale Market and Dufferin Grove and are strong supporters of the local food community.
J & C Nyman Farms
Location: Prince Edward County
J&C Nyman Farms is a family owned, ethically run, value added local food producing farm. They strive to be a source of information and community development centered around allowing customers to get intimately in touch with the origins of their food. They offer maple syrup, pasture raised lamb, chicken, turkey and eggs. They also offer a meat CSA.

Tealish
Location: Toronto
Tealish, a modern tea boutique, with the intention of changing people’s perception of tea showing people how incredibly fun, delicious, healthy and affordable premium loose-leaf tea is. Through their assortment of fresh and vibrant tea blends, Tealish loose leaf tea provides a rich sensory experience that is unparalleled by tea bags. Using teas of premium quality married with colourful healthy ingredients including whole fruit pieces, nuts, fragrant spices and flower petals, Tealish’s teas are carefully crafted to ensure the highest quality and best flavour. Tealish teas are delicious both hot and iced.

Two Century Farm
Location: Grimsby
Two Century Farm is a family run farm that has been passed on from generation to generation since 1788. The acreage has grown due to dedication, diligent farming practices and hard work by the Duncan and his family. The enviable farm location, and sandy soil contribute to excellent quality fruit growing and Two Century Farm’s reputation. Two Century Farm seasonally grows a wide variety of cherries, peaches, plums, nectarines, pears, grapes and apples.

Community Partners

Green Thumbs Growing Kids
Location: Toronto
GTGK is a community organization that plants school gardens in inner city schools in Toronto, has after school programs where students plant food gardens, learn about planting, composting and cooking. They service over 3000 kids in our city. Green Thumbs Growing Kids has existing partnerships with Slow Food Toronto and Foodshare who they will be sharing a table with.

Green Enterprise Toronto (GET)
Location: Toronto

GET is a local network of locally-owned businesses, manufacturers, service providers, food and beverage sources. Members of GET have a focus of building a green economy.

Henry of Pelham
Location: Niagara
Henry of Pelham Family Estate Winery was established in 1988 with the first vintage. At that time we were one of a very few estate wineries dedicated to producing premium quality wines made from 100% Ontario grown grapes. Our focus is on vinifera grape varieties. This family of grapes includes Chardonnay, Riesling and Cabernet Sauvignon, and has been cultivated by Europeans for hundreds of years proving to produce wines of distinction.

Lailey Vinyard
Location: Niagara on the Lake
Lailey Vinyard has been in the family since the early 1950’s and has transformed into vineyard dedicate to producing quality wine while respecting the vineyards terroir. Since 2003 Lailey Vineyard has eliminated the use of herbicides to control weeds and relies on mechanical and manual hoeing as they believe a more hands on approach supports the relationship between healthy soil that is rich in microbial life results in a more complex flavour of grapes.

Wellington Brewery
Wellington Brewery was based on the concept to produce English-style real ales for the Ontario market. Cask conditioned ales that are naturally carbonated, served at cellar temperature and drawn by a hand pump respect that the traditional heritage of beer production. Wellington is also part of the first wave of Ontario microbreweries that were brought about by changes to Ontario law allowing small breweries to operate in the province for the first time in decades.

Barley Days Brewery
Location: Prince Edward County
Barley Days Brewery popular for its satisfying brews focuses on a balanced and interesting product line that represents classic brewing styles that use the finest malts and hops, brewed in small batches helping to ensure quality beer. Barley Days Brewery is proud of its heritage and connection to Prince Edward County.

Guest Speaker:

Paul DeCampo is Co-Convivia Leader of Slow Food Toronto working with local sustainable producers, chefs and community to increase access to good, clean, fair food for all. Paul is the Coordinator of The Good Food Box Program at FoodShare, which distributes healthy nutritious boxes of food to thousands in our community making top-quality, fresh food available in a way that does not stigmatize people, fosters community development and promotes healthy eating . Paul also teaches a course on Slow Food principles and resources to professional Chef students in the Italian Culinary Arts Graduate Program at George Brown College.

-PEAK SEASON-

Producer Partners

Whole Earth Farms Studio
Located: Hastings
Whole Earth offers varieties of heirloom vegetables, honey and heritage meats such as Jersey Giant chicken eggs, pasture raised heritage Shropshire lamb, Tamworth pork, duck and heritage Bourbon Red turkey. Heritage livestock are raised naturally and slowly with care and no antibiotics, meat based proteins, growth hormones, synthetics or artificial additives. Whole Earth also offers CSA to the public!

St. John’s Bakery
Location: Toronto

St. John’s Baker is one of Toronto’s finest and unique bakeries. They bake breads and sweats made with certified organic flours and ingredients. The bakery also uses CIMP’s flours and grains. St. John’s Bakery works to support an inclusive community. St. John’s Bakery workers have included refugees, people struggling with addictions, people with emotional troubles or mental illness, and single parents struggling with poverty.
CIPM Farm
Email: cipm@coopermill.com
Location: Madoc
CIPM is a certified organic cash crop operation, growing spelt, rye, wheat, buckwheat, soybeans, flax, hemp, oats and heritage grain or red fife wheat. Red Fife Wheat, a variety brought to Canada from Scotland by David Fife in 1842. CIPM and a number of other farms have worked together to preserve the small amount of seed and once again it is stone milled into whole grain flour using the entire grain. Red Fife Wheat is also on Slow Food Canada’s Ark of Taste, which to put it simply, highlights foods that need to be preserved as they are or were cloise to becoming extinct. Because CIPM’s grains are not processed, they have a greater depth of flavor, hints of nuttiness and are simply delicious.

Evelyn’s Crackers
Email: dawnsdinnerparty@rogers.com or evelynscrackers@gmail.com
Location: Toronto
Partners in the growing local food movement, handcrafted from organic and artisanal ingredients, committed to using heritage varieties of Red Fife Wheat whole wheat, spelt, barley and other local grains, are enjoyed with all cheese-styles, charcuterie, dips and even on their own. Evelyn’s Crackers incorporate ingredients from CIPM Farm and Monforte Dairy, two long standing Harvest Wednesday partners.

Dingo Farms
Email: harrisons@dingofarms.ca
Location: Bradford
Dingo Farms is a sustainable farm that raises Grass-fed Beef, Lamb, Berkshire Pork, Free-range Chicken and Duck. Their livestock is Naturally Raised without GMOs, Antibiotics and Hormones. The Harrisons’ concept of sustainable agriculture goes beyond raising their livestock naturally, and growing what they need on their own farm. For them, sustainable agriculture also means using the whole animal and they encourage customers to try different cuts of meat and feel inspired to cook their food and experiment.

Around the Sound:
Location: Owen Sound
AROUND THE SOUND LOCAL FOOD MARKET sells products grown, raised, caught, processed and created as close to Owen Sound as we can find them. You’ll find Fresh fruit and vegetables in season, including growing sprouts and shoots ,Chicken, lamb, pheasant, beef, elk, venison and bison, Fresh, frozen and smoked fish, Eggs, Cheese and yogurt , Grains, flours and cereals , Pasta, Fresh bread made with local grains, , Cakes, pastries, and gluten-free products, Locally roasted coffee, Honey and maple syrup and sugar, Cold-pressed oils, Pickles, sauces, jams , Meat pies, Organic and naturally-raised products will be top of our list, Fair trade products like olive oil, sugar and chocolate will also be available.

Claire and Nathan Smith
Email: clairesmith@hurontel.on.ca
Location: Owen Sound
Rainbow eggs! From Claire Smith’s rare and heritage hens, these eggs range from a delicate shade of blue to almost mahogany. They are almost too beautiful to eat, but they have rich yellow yolks and are full of all the nutrition of quality eggs. Claire also grows lavender.

Twin Creeks Organic Farm
Location: Woodford
Twin Creeks Organic Farm is proud to offer Certified Naturally Grown vegetables and grass fed meat. Livestock, hay, grains and vegetables grown at Twin Creeks are primarily heritage breeds and varieties with absolutely NO pesticides, chemical fertilizers, hormones, or GMO technology.

Mapleton’s Organics
Location: Moorefield
Mapleton’s Organic Dairy is a family owned and operated farm. They raise and care for cows that supply the milk for their delicious ice cream, frozen yogurt and fresh yogurt. In addition to their dairy herd, they also raise young dairy animals, a flock of laying hens to supply eggs for their ice cream and pigs for organic pork. Mapleton’s Organic Farm provides the public with healthy, local, and environmentally sustainable products. They believe they have a responsibility to show young people about the cycle of responsible food production. Mapleton’s host tours and special events and welcome guests to observe our farm up close. Mapleton’s is also a partner of Field Trip, connecting urban people with local farms.

Match Box Gardens and Seed Co.
Location: Brampton
They produce locally grown, rare and heirloom variety seedlings, seed, vegetables, herbs and edible flowers. They are a strong existing partner. Hanna and the team from Matchbox come from a Program called New Farmers with Farmstart, which helps young farmers learn about farming, planning, budgeting as well as provides incubator land for farming. As an advocate of city gardening they also offer landscape services with a focus on native and edible plants. Match Box is a vendor at The Sorauren Farmers’ Market and will be sharing a table with Westend Food Coop.

Forbes Wild Foods
Forbes Wild Foods provides wild and foraged foods in fresh, dried and jarred form. They forage all products using sustainable and traditional methods, ensuring the future of these foods as well as respecting the environment they were grown in. Forbes has everything from, rose water, to spruce tips to Saskatoon berries. They harvest their unique foods in remote regions across the country.

Urban Harvest
Location: Toronto
Urban Harvest is dedicated to providing seedlings, plants and feed that promote ecological diversity and preserve the health of the environment. Seeds and plants are all organic and of the heirloom variety. All seedlings are grown in or near the greater Toronto area to support the local economy.

Kernal Peanuts
Location: Norfolk
Yes, we grow peanuts in Ontario! Kerna peanuts is the largest peanut farm in Canada. Once a thriving tobacco farm, Ernie and Nancy transformed the land into a peanut farm, where they now grow Valencia peanuts. In addition to peanuts of all preparations and flavours, Kernal Peanuts also produces peanut butters, fudge and trail mixes.

Community Partners

Toronto Farmers Market Network and Trinity-Bellwoods Farmers’ Market
Location: Toronto
The Toronto Farmers’ Market Network is a working group of market organizers. Our markets operate independently, differing in size, style and requirements, but we share a focus on supporting sustainable agriculture and building strong communities. We work together to share information, farmer referrals, and best practices, to help new market organizers, to advocate for positive city policies, and to raise the profile of farmers’ markets. Here are the markets involved:

Birchcliff Village Farmers’ Market
Brick Works Farmers’ Market
Dufferin Grove Organic Farmers’ Market
FoodShare Toronto
Guildwood Village Farmers’ Market
Harbourside Organic Farmers’ Market (Oakville)
North York Farmers’ Market
Riverdale Farm Farmers’ Market
Sorauren Farmers’ Market
Stonegate Farmers’ Market
The Stop’s Green Barn Farmers’ Market
Trinity-Bellwoods Farmers’ Market
Withrow Park Farmers’ Market

Greenest City
Location: Toronto
Greenest City is a non-profit, community-based environmental organization committed to reducing pollution, regenerating urban life, and promoting social equity. They work towards building community capacity to grow local food production and increase security. They create community gardens, lead educational workshops, connect youth with employment, lead programs, festivals, environmental projects and cultural exchanges. Key aspects of their approach is to use community building principles and seek to include those who are often marginalized. Not Far From the Tree and Greenest City have a partnership and they will be sharing a table. Graeme is also one of the co-Executive Directors of the Westend Food Co-op.

Westend Food Co-op (WEFC)
Location: Toronto
WEFC helps promote food security within the west-end of Toronto, by creating community driven food initiatives working towards a full service grocery store that focuses on selling products that are ecological, sustainable, local and healthy. The WEFC also coordinates the Sorauren Farmers’ Market.

Green Enterprise Toronto (GET)
Location: Toronto
GET is a local network of locally-owned businesses, manufacturers, service providers, food and beverage sources. Members of GET have a focus of building a green economy. Urban Harvest is a member of GET and will be sharing at table.

Slow Food Toronto
Location: Toronto
Slow Food Toronto is volunteer, membership driven movement founded in Italy in reaction to fast food culture that has graduated to an International movement. The three basic principles of Slow Food are Good Clean Fair. Slow Food Toronto believes that access to good, clean, fair food is an irrevocable human right and works towards building food community networks that include producers, artisans, chefs, food activists, youth leadership, and co-producers* (consumers).

Good:we should take pleasure in the food we eat, embracing its natural integrity, everyone has the right to take pleasure in Good food

Clean: Food should promote a bio-diverse approach, and be grown, harvested, raised and produced in a manner that does not harm the environment, animal welfare or our health

Fair: Food producers should be treated with dignity, and be justly compensated

Beverage Partners

The Grange Winery
Location: Prince Edward County
With 60 acres of vineyards, a pastoral setting in a beautifully restored barn. The Grange of Prince Edward Vineyards & Estate Winery is the Loyalist version of a French wine estate – complete with rich textures, historical outbuildings and old-world ambiance. The vineyards, comprising over 72,000 vinifera vines, are planted on Hillier clay gravel over calciferous fractured limestone where fields are naturally well drained and surprisingly fertile. Set on rolling fields, wetlands for waterfowl and original lanes where one can see deer and pheasant, the Grange of Prince Edward is truly breathtaking.

Great Lakes Beer
Independently owned by the Bulut family, Great Lakes Brewery produce beer as it was done hundreds of years ago by using an open fire, copper brew house built in Germany in the early 1900’s. Their small-batch brewing process allows them to carefully blend only the finest all natural ingredients to produce award-winning beers. Water, hops, malts and yeast are selected from local producers and those afar on the basis of but one criteria; quality.

Mill Street Brewery
Mill Street Brewery is East Toronto’s first commercial brewery to open in more than 100 years, producing handcrafted beers and ales in the historic Corktown area of the city. At Mill Street Brewery’s aim is to produce a variety of beers to suit every taste, including small batches of seasonal brew.

Grey Hawk (and Flatrock Cellars)
Grey Hawk is a new range of exclusively VQA wines. The grapes are sourced from leading Niagara Vineyards and the wines are made in a fresh, approachable style emphasizing lively fruit flavours and varietal character.

Guest Speaker

Debbie Field
Executive Director, Foodshare
A tireless and energetic activist, Debbie Field has worked for over thirty years managing organizations, building civil society campaigns and raising millions of dollars. Her consensus-building leadership and skills as a political strategist at the community level has enabled progressive policy and legislative in the areas of food policy and nutrition, at all three levels of government. Debbie is a dynamic communicator and a regular spokesperson at large events and in the media.

For the past 17 years Debbie has been executive director of the award winning non-profit organization, FoodShare Toronto that works with multiple communities to improve access to affordable, healthy food through sustainable food programs. Since she came to FoodShare it has grown from a staff of 6 and a budget of $600,000 to its current staff complement of 40, 800 active volunteers, and an annual budget of $5.5 million. During this period FoodShare has launched some of Canada’s most successful social enterprises including the Good Food Box, the Toronto Kitchen Incubator, Field to Table Catering, Green Jobs and Student Nutrition programs. FoodShare’s is recognized across Canada and around the world as one of the most innovative, sophisticated and successful community-based food security organizations. Programs initiated by FoodShare have been reproduced in every province.

-Late Harvest-

Producer Partners

Chick a Biddy Acres

S cotch Mountain Meats
Located: in Meaford Ontario in the northern region of Grey County near Georgian Bay
Natural, open pastured pork, lamb and beef.

Honey Pie Hive and Herbals
Location: Prince Edward County
Buy combining herb farming with beekeeping HPH and H have created original formulas to make lotions, potions and luxury soaps. Handcrafted in small batches, using fine ingredients like beeswax, Propolis, organic herbs, vegetable oils & essential oils, their products never include any animal tallow, detergents, or petroleum;they are never ever tested on animals. You can find Honey Pie Hive’s delicious products at Gladstone hotel.

J & C Nyman Farms
Location: Prince Edward County
J&C Nyman Farms is a family owned, ethically run, value added local food producing farm. They strive to be a source of information and community development centered around allowing customers to get intimately in touch with the origins of their food. They offer maple syrup, pasture raised lamb, chicken, turkey and eggs. They also offer a meat CSA.

Chocosol Chocolate Traders
Location: Toronto
Chocosol practices horizontal trade to source their cacoa beans. In activistist terms horizontal trade is a form of direct trade or direct action. It is about working at the grassroots and looking to your left to find those who are seeking something similar and with whom you can form a link in the chains of social change based on solidarity, dignity, and ecology. Pedal powered roasters roast the cacoa beans in order for chocosol to create their own dark delicious chocolate.

Wheelbarrow Farms
Location: Uxbridge
Wheelbarrow Farm is located an hour northeast of Toronto on 10 acres of rolling field and forest. They grow mixed organic vegetables and raise heritage breeds of pigs on pasture. Wheelbarrow Farm’s mission is to build an environmentally sustainable farm that participates in the struggle for a more just and equitable society

Willowinds Farm
Location: Uxbridge
Willowind Farm, is a family run farm located just outside Uxbridge. Adrian and his family grown organic vegetables and raise beef, pultry and pork using natural raising methods on a small scale production.

Culinarium
Location: Toronto
Toronto’s Locavore store! We are a unique gourmet food store in Mid-town toronto that showcases exceptional Ontario products and passionate people behind them.

Warner Farms
Location: Toronto
Torrie Warner’s farm nourishes many communities in Ontario during our fruit seasons offering apples, peaches, plums, apricots, sweet cherries, sour cherries, plums, prunes, quince, berries, currants, grapes and nuts.

Kestrel Farms
Location: Essa
We are an eco-friendly farm whos mandate is too produce quality organic vegetables with a flair for color.!
Our intention is too do this while reducing our enviromental impact.
There are a few of ways in which we are doing this. First we are Organic we use no pesticides or herbicides in the production of our produce. Second we are Solar powered our operation is 100% off grid and we rely on photovoltaic panels too generate our electricity. Third we run our tractor and our cooler on Bio diesel which is made from margarine & canola oil.
We are also in the process of building a grey water reclamation system and are always trying too improve our efficiency.

Creemore 100 Mile Store
Location: Creemore
This gem of a store in the heart of Creemore offers a wide range of products from meats, cheeses, ice cream, peanuts, fruits and delicious seasonal vegetables from surrounding sustainable producers with an emphasis on natural or organic locally produced products. A must visit!
Weninger Farms
Location: Elgin County
Weninger Farms is primarily grows sweet potatoes. John Weninger, an Elgin County sweet potato producer, has introduced an infrared dehydrator to his operation – allowing him to become the first producer of sweet potato flour, which has significant nutraceutical benefits. John dries a variety of products, opening the door to new markets for the family farm as it phases out of tobacco production. In addition to filling all the flour orders he receives, Weninger Farms can custom dry most raw food products thus giving farmers the ability to create their own value added products. Weninger Farms is also LFP certified.

Community Partners

Green Enterprise Toronto (GET)
Location: Toronto

GET is a local network of locally-owned businesses, manufacturers, service providers, food and beverage sources. Members of GET have a focus of building a green economy.

Evergreen Brick Works Farmers’ Markets
Every Saturday throughout the summer, the Farmers’ Market features a fabulous assortment of fruits, vegetables, wild fish, meat, cheese, milled flours, eggs and oils—all from local farmers. Evergreen Brick Works will be a year-round destination for experiential learning, collaboration, fun and celebration on the themes of Nature, Culture and Community.

Green Living
Green Living is a Canadian publication and portal offering, valuable information about organics, health, the environment, and eco-consumer products. Green Living also partners with Evergreen and Slow Food Toronto to being the Farm Fresh Fare at the Green Living Show, showcasing local Ontario producers and chefs that create delicious dishes with their local product.

Beverage Partners

Hockley Valley
Location: Hockley Valley
Hockley Valley Brewing Company, takes time brewing their beer. In fact, each step of the brewing process – from start to finish – is done by hand, in small batches. All beer is then delivered fresh – not pasteurized – usually within a few days of being canned. This hands-on approach to Hockely’s craft allows them to ensure The Perfect Balance with their beer.

Kacaba Vineyards
Kacaba Vineyard’s philosophy is dependent upon small quantities. Their production is limited by their ability to handle and manage quantities that can be produced mainly by hand. Pumping is kept to a minimum and gravity is used for bottling and racking. This methodology is quite simple really – they lift their tanks and barrels with a forklift. Kacaba strives to encourage sustainable agriculture which involves not only good husbandry of our lands but the proposition that agriculture is a valuable resource and ought to be maintained and encouraged.

Nyarai Cellars
The collective efforts of Nyarai Cellars, strives to craft wines that are sourced from prime Niagara Peninsula vineyards that showcase the purity and elegance of this rich region.

Guest Speaker

Wayne Roberts

Wayne Roberts, PhD, is a leading Canadian thinker and writer on sustainability issues, and the senior author of seven books, including ‘Get A Life!’ (a green economy primer), and ‘Real Food For a Change’ (which focuses on food system reform and its implications for individuals, communities and the planet). He is the Co-ordinator of the Toronto Food Policy Council, on the Board of both the North American-wide Community Food Security Coalition and Food Secure Canada, and Chair of the Coalition for a Green Economy. In 2001, NOW Magazine named him one of Toronto’s top ten visionaries of the past 20 years. He was awarded the 2002 Canadian Environment Awards Silver Medal for his contributions to sustainable living.

Harvest Wednesdays Partners

-First Harvest-

Producer Partners Chick a Biddy Acres

Community Partners

Beverage Partners

-Summer Harvest-

Producer Partners

Community Partners

-PEAK SEASON-

Producer Partners

Community Partners

Beverage Partners

Guest Speaker

-Late Harvest-

Producer Partners Chick a Biddy Acres

Community Partners

Beverage Partners

Guest Speaker Wayne Roberts

Producer Partners

Chick a Biddy Acres

Guest Speaker

Wayne Roberts