Chefs' Market Harvest Party (Photo: Ed Rek)
Yesterday I was lucky enough to sneak out of the office and visit Evergreen Brick Works for a harvest party at the weekly Chefs’ Market. The event was a celebration of the first season of this market, which connects local farmers with chefs and retailers who are looking to buy in bulk.
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Posted by Erin from Communications
World Rivers Day in Burnaby (Photos: Jaime Kowal Photography)
This past Sunday, Evergreen hosted a creek restoration event along Still Creek in Burnaby in support of the City’s World Rivers Day Celebration.
Evergreen staff joined a number of eager volunteers to improve habitat along the creek by planting native trees and shrubs.
Not only were we treated to sunny weather, but throughout the day the Redboot Quartet “dug” out upbeat tunes for us to happily plant to. Youth stilt walkers and fiddlers from the Still Moon Arts Society provided additional entertainment by occasionally wandering through our planting area.
To top it all off, the festival organizers kept our appetites at bay with a hearty complimentary sockeye salmon lunch.
Not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
Join us at a planting or stewardship event in your area.
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Posted by Allison from Evergreen British Columbia
This past Saturday, September 26, Evergreen Brick Works was the place to be as our bustling Saturday Farmers’ Market turned into a colourful, environmental carnival–complete with a stilt-walking scarecrow!
Drawing our dream city. (Photo: Kourosh Javidi)
Over 1,000 locavores came down to the site to have fun with Toronto’s leading conservation organizations. Visitors bobbed for organic apples, chalked out their dream city, played Sustainability Scrabble or Environmental Plinko, made beeswax candles, clay-baked veggies, tuned up and decorated bikes and learned how to cut down on resource consumption (and bills)!
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Posted by Michelle from Evergreen Brick Works
The Evergreen office is a busy place, and unfortunately, we sometimes we find ourselves glued to the computer and working right through lunch. It’s really no way to eat.
So when the nice weather hit late this summer, my co-worker Matthew and I decided to entice our colleagues away from their desks by reviving the long-lost Evergreen Lunch Club.
This week's lunch club feast. (Photo: Melissa Yu)
The rules are simple: Each week two people bring enough food for a crowd. Everyone else simply shows up with a dish, and we spend the hour together enjoying fabulous food.
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Posted by Mel from Development
TVOKids perform at Evergreen Brick Works (Photo: Anfernee Chansamooth)
On September 19, over 300 environment-loving kids and their parents gathered at Evergreen Brick Works to meet Enviro Girl! Evergreen and TVOKids presented Greenbelt Adventure Day during the Saturday Farmers’ Market where eco-conscious children had the chance to try hands-on activities and to see their favourite TVOkids hosts perform list. Some even scored a super-hero autograph!
Check out the live stage show here!
Enviro Girl signs autographs after the performance. (Photo: Anfernee Chansamooth)
More short videos of the TVOKids adventures at Evergreen Brick Works:
1. Ryan learns about bees
2. Mark visits the Farmers’ Market
3. Make a Pine Cone Bird Feeder
4. TVOKids Sign Autographs
Mini-brick creations. (Photo: Anfernee Chansamooth)
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Kids also got a special treat in the garden where local artists-in-residence Morgan Zigler and Shannon Crossman were demonstrating how to make miniature edible bricks. Ingredients for tasty polenta or cacao bricks where mixed by hand, formed and then eaten. Non-edibles were constructed out of a cob mixture and the debate over food or shelter materialized.
Another SUPER day at Evergreen Brick Works Farmers’ Market!
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Posted by Michelle from Evergreen Brick Works
It’s true that Evergreen volunteers are an inspired bunch, but last Sunday, September 20, one Markham resident felt truly inspired to see his community hard at work making the town a little greener. While members of the Markham Lions Club and local residents were busy planting 500 native trees and shrubs in Austin Drive Park, a bonnie bagpiper showed up and treated us all to his cheerful notes.
Check out the video below for some sweet sounds of community in action.
For a complete list of public planting and stewardship events in and around the GTA and Vancouver, visit Evergreen’s online calendar of events.
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Posted by Colin from Common Grounds
Recently several of my colleagues gleefully spent their Saturday bowling to raise money for Evergreen. They were joined by two other organizations, Daily Bread Food Bank and Reach for Rainbows. The three teams spent the weeks leading up to the big event recruiting teammates and signing up sponsors–family and friends.
As an infrequent bowler, I decided I’d be more useful donating money to “Team Conifera,” named after our Evergreen mascot.
After the event I got to sit down with Cara, one of the Team Conifera captains, to get the lowdown on how the pins fell.
Team Conifera: Cara, Mel, Nicola, Sarah, Zanita and Sue (l-r) (Photo: Evergreen)
As you can see from the picture above, the whole team showed up in style. Cara even wore her costume to the office the Friday before to solicit more donations from the office.
Cara said that Team Conifera made themselves right at home at the cosmic-lit Bowl-A-Rama. Nicola, as it turns out, is a bowling phenom, and the team was by far the loudest.
In total, $800 was raised, but perhaps even more importantly, Team Conifera won the spirit prize because of their costumes, hghi-fives and cheers.
Good job y’all!
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Posted by Nate from Public Relations
Back to a barren school ground? Add some healthy green this year!
Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds program is now accepting applications for the 2009/10 school year.
Download the application and guide today!
The Toyota Evergreen Learning Grounds program had a record number of applications last year and we were pleased to distribute over $210,000 to support 136 school ground greening or food gardening projects across Canada. We want to do it again this year!
If you’re looking to green an asphalt school ground or enhance an existing greening project, we strongly encourage you to apply, but quickly! Funds tend to run out before our January 15, 2010 deadline.
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Posted by Sarah from Learning Grounds
After years of planning and months of prepping the site, the crane is up!
The crane is up. (Photo: Bill Deneau)
Construction at Evergreen Brick Works is progressing with new changes every week. Stay tuned to our construction journal and follow our progress step-by-step.
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Posted by Jenn from Communications
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