The Erin Mills Farmers Market with community gardens is a permaculture-inspired regenerative community project, co-designed with The Daniels Corporation, The Cutting Veg and Hoffmann Hayes. It is emerging to be a vibrant and community-led food hub. The market offers carefully sourced and sustainably produced food made by the vendors themselves as well as programs.
The first garden site included a straw bale vegetable garden, compost demonstration, a zero waste outdoor kitchen, natural kids play spaces and a meditative labyrinth. We’re moving to a new garden site later this year. Check it out on facebook and twitter. Across from the Erin Mills Town Centre at Eglinton West and Erin Mills.
Regenerative Community In Action
A regenerative community is a group of people working together to renew and grow healthy living systems that meet individual and collective needs.
Check out our Regenerative Community slide show for some amazing pictures (and a few words) about how we have been growing a more resilient community and local food hub together for over 7 years.
Food Systems Interviews & Stories
We’ve recently started a project to record interviews and stories of local farmers, producers, consumers, food system activists, and others who are engaged along the food supply chain from “farm to table.” We’re looking forward to hearing how people are doing and what they’re inspired by as we check in with them this year! Listen and learn about the launch of this exciting new project. (7 min)
Episode 1: Starting with the Erin Mills Farmers Market (7 min)
Recorded remotely by Dave Misener and Preeti Sangwan. Edited by Dave Misener. Produced by Jane Hayes, Dave Misener & Preeti Sangwan. © Garden Jane, 2020.
Community Garden Plots ** full for 2020
See more info here.
The Farmers Market
The market is focused on local sustainable food, grown by the farmers who come to market. It runs on Thursdays, 3:30pm-7:30pm from July 11 – Sept 26.
Volunteers!
We’re looking for volunteers to help run the market. More info.
Volunteers can also join us to implement permaculture design ideas. Limited space for available for permaculture design volunteers. Past projects have included swale building and wetland monitoring. We’ re currently revamping our community gardening sites and programming, and building community. Contact us.
Learn more about the Eco-Kitchen program at Erin Mills Farmers Market here.