Season Finale

November 2, 2009
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More than 1,000 visitors enjoy the site each week. (Photo: Anfernee Chansamooth)

What an incredible season we’ve had at Evergreen Brick Works:

  • 4,000 invaluable volunteer hours
  • 1,000 wonderful visitors each week
  • 150 dedicated volunteers
  • 50 fabulous local vendors
  • 30 inspiring community partner organizations

We wrapped up the season on Saturday, October 31 with a plethora of ghoulish Halloween festivities. Stilt walkers roamed the site; live music from Moo’d Swing filled the air; an abundance of autumn, farm-fresh produce was consumed; and fresh bread, baked in our newly finished bread oven, was enjoyed by all.

Thanks for a great season, see you next May!

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First Nations Harvest Social

October 20, 2009
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First Nations Harvest Social (Photo: Kourosh Javidi)

Evergreen Brick Works Farmers’ Market guests had a special treat this past Saturday, October 17: a traditional First Nations Fall Harvest Feast and Social. Jacqui Levalley, an elder from the Toronto community, led a beautiful opening ceremony, which was followed by an array of songs, colourful dances and a harvest blessing.

Matthew Hupfield, the Aboriginal Community Development Co-ordinator for Evergreen, came up with the idea for the Harvest Social.

“The event allows the First Nations community to check out the Brick Works and allows the community at the Brick Works to experience some First Nations culture,” he explains. “What better way to do that than with food, dancing and celebration? People enjoyed the food and certainly got more than just a voyeuristic sample of another culture– they got to experience it.”

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2nd Annual Sustainability Fair Success

September 29, 2009

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!

Calking a dream city.

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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Enviro Girl Visits Evergreen Brick Works

September 24, 2009
TVOKids perform at Evergreen Brick Works

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.

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

Kids make and eat their mini-brick creations.

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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