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Toronto Botanical Gardens Farmers’ Market

  • June 5, 2014
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It’s no secret that I love farmers’ markets! There was one summer that in August, I convinced my mom to take me to markets 6 days each week! Although the food began as my focus, and is still awesmazing, I love developing relationships with the people – the farmers, the chefs, the bakers, the organizers, the entrepreneurs, and regulars that go, too! I always have an amazing feeling when we get to Brickworks Farmers’ Market every Saturday, but going to new markets is also such a great experience. This experience is always better with most of, or all of my family, because we all get to try to share more things, together. It’s also great when the vendors are actually farmers and the food makers and ORGANIC!

Toronto Botanical Gardens is a beautiful space on Lawrence Avenue just west of Leslie, I think we could have gone for a very long walk, before and after the market, adjacent to their pay-by-donation-only parking lot, and the main building with a cute little gift shop with all kinds of gardening tools and accessories, and books! While you browse through the small market (relatively speaking to Dufferin Grove or Brickworks), you can take a look around and notice you are surrounded by lush greenery, which is a nice change from the concrete, asphalt and glass of our city. The market contains around a dozen vendors, each carrying varying product, but cover vegetables, fruits, breads, eggs, cheese, dips, spreads, meals, honey, information, and more. It was all, or mostly all, certified organic! This is a market that I want to frequent, and it’s all year round since there is an indoor space, too!

I have included some of my highlights from the market below in pictures with captions, but go yourself, since there is much that is not in pictures that you will surely love! Enjoy this and all of Toronto’s other great markets (make sure they have organic vendors!) and talk to those organic farmers who work so hard for us, and who will so nicely talk to you!

Eat healthy and feel good about it!

Ryan

 

Amazing meals can be made with the freshest food from markets!
Amazing meals can be made with the freshest food from markets- just try it! My mom made red lentil and sweet potato soup and quinoa and the rest came from our garden and the market!
Clay Pot Catering makes yummy red lentil crackers, spelt crackers, and (idk) crackers!
Clay Pot Catering makes yummy lentil papadums (large and very thin crackery things that are INCREDIBLE, spelt crackers, and Chickpea Spaghetti (those noodle looking things, perfect for snacking on the go, which we know already from at the market and on the way home!)
It's Rhubarb season! They just keep getting bigger and bigger!
It’s Rhubarb season! They just keep getting bigger and bigger and my sister needs to eat it daily, along with asparagus.
This hot sauce is made with amazing ingredients like tomato, cucumber, and beet, but watch out! It is SPICY!
This hot sauce is made with amazing ingredients like tomato, cucumber, and beet (none of which I like on their own, but I LOVE, so never judge a product just by it’s ingredients, try new things!) But watch out! It is SPICY!
We haven't tried it yet, but this preserved lemon smells positively awesmazing!
This preserved lemon smells positively awesmazing! It took a year in the making from organic lemons and my mom and sister had it after dinner in hot water and loved it.
This chickpea and mint hummus is not to be overlooked! The minty flavour mingles perfectly with the savoury chickpeas!
This chickpea and mint hummus is not to be overlooked! The minty flavour mingles perfectly with the savoury chickpeas! My little brother even loved it! I love seeing organic on a label!
This spanish-style dip is really good, and has a small spice to it that makes a perfect blend of savoury and spicy!
This spanish-style dip is really good, and has a small spice to it that makes a perfect blend of savoury and spicy! I don’t like the first 3 ingredients typically, but almost ate this entire container, it was so great!
This cracker is only made from red lentils, water, and salt. Amazing what people figure out how to do!
This papadum from Clay Pot Catering is only made from red lentils, water, and salt. Amazing to discover different foods from other cultures! This is so simple, and so good!
They had a wall of some really cool flowers that my brother and I loved!
They had a wall of some really cool flowers that my brother and I loved – and at the Botanical Garden, they label everything so you can figure out what it is!
Good Food Is Good
Good Food For Good! How good of a name is THIS?! It is good food, and it is for good! They donate a portion of their proceeds to a good cause to feed others!
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Worth a visit to Toronto Botanical Gardens Farmers’ Market just for this sauces and spreads!
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Taste testing – one of my favourite hobbies!
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Exploring their garden courtyard is beautiful. There was a lot of “modern shrubbery” to learn about!
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I love my brother. He spent so much time looking at this waterfall from so many angles to find out how it worked! He is a very inquisitive boy.
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Happy at the market!
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Apple Cherry Cider! It was organic and cold pressed, and after some arguing he was able to negotiate with my mother and my sister and I to get his own cup of it! They sell 2 Litre jugs of organic apple cider for 8 dollars and they grow the apples themselves!
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I spent quite a bit of time at Clay Pot Catering! Not only was the owner really so very nice, but I had to try a lot! Her Pakora was exceptional with chickpeas, carrot, kale, potato and onion, you cannot go wrong! She told me that next week she will have Samosas too, maybe a trip back is in order!
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It is sweet and a good treat!
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Deciding on apples and cider! Let’s hear it for organic and local!!!
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The farmer who sold us this organically grown rhubarb suggested we use it as an umbrella! This goes perfectly with apples, cinnamon and lemon juice in the oven and topped with granola!
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A parking machine that is optional and 100% donation to the Toronto Botanical Gardens! Such a great thing to have, I hope there could be more of these across the city at markets!
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So happy to come to this market for the first time! A great organic experience in a beautiful place!
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