Community Harvest Working Group
The Community Harvest Working Group is thrilled to be hosting a fundraising event in conjunction with Margaret Atwood’s launch of her new book, The Year of the Flood. Tickets are $125 and are available through the Grand Theatre box office. Tickets will include: - entrance to the reception where Margaret Atwood will be in attendance
- a signed copy of The Year of the Flood
- a ticket to the evening’s performance
- preferred seating at the performance
- cash bar
- finger foods made from local ingredients based upon recipes and food references found throughout The Year of the Flood
Zeb’s Devilled Eggs: (Zeb got his eggs from the pigeons on his roof, but our recipe involves hens)
SecretBurgers: “Because Everyone Loves a Secret” : (nobody knew what was in SecretBurgers, but ours are made with beef)
Pigoon on the Moon
Gardener Locovoracious Fare
Lemon Merinque Facial Tarts, (from the AnooYoo Spa, where the skin products are edible)
Adam One’s Sumach Lemonade. And more!
Community Harvest Working Group: Committed to building Community and enhancing food security in Kingston’s Rideau Heights neighbourhood.
- The Community Harvest Market; a market featuring local foods and crafts. Sundays from 10-2 at the Wally Elmer Neighbourhood Centre
- Organic Vegetable Teaching Garden/Seasonal Cooking Workshop Series; a ten workshop series including hands-on gardening information
- Community Harvest Gleaning Network: Gleaning is a way to gather fresh fruits and vegetables in the field that would otherwise be ploughed under. Instead of having good food go to waste, the gleaning network allows volunteers to harvest produce for themselves and their families, as well as for distribution to meal programs in the community.
Who Initiated this Market?
This spring, we are introducing a pilot market, called the Community Harvest Market on the Grounds of the Wally Elmer Neighbourhood Centre. The market will run from May 31 to October 25 on Sundays from 10 am to 2 pm. The Wally Elmer Neighbourhood Centre is the ideal location for this pilot project as it already serves as an activity hub for the area. We also feel that the Community Harvest Market will be a great fit with other proposed projects for the Centre such as the teaching garden for CHWG’s organic gardening and seasonal cooking workshop series currently underway. We have the full support of the City of Kingston in this initiative, as well as local service clubs, businesses and community organizations. The Community Harvest Market is truly a community endeavour.
Why are we doing this?
Our goals are to enhance access to fresh, locally grown and produced food for residents of the Rideau Heights area as well as to other residents of the City; to promote “buying local” by supporting local food producers, and to help create a real community market-place where people look forward to seeing their neighbours, talking with producers and learning about healthy local food.
What will be at the market?
Local farmers and food producers as well as local artisans will bring their goods to the market. Products sold must be grown/produced within a 150km radius of the city of Kingston. A small % of items from outside of this area, but from within Ontario, may be sold if they are not available within this area e.g. peaches and cherries in season. All products will be producer identified; every vendor is responsible to ensure that they label all products by source and producer. For example, tomatoes sold will be labeled with farm name and location.
The Community Harvest Market will also provide space each week for local community organizations to share information with market goers as well as for craftspeople and artists.
We hope to see you at the market!
Susan Belyea
For the Community Harvest Working Group
( 613) 583-2055
