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This Thursday: Bike Day at the Market!

Our first Bike Day at the market last year was a blast, and the sequel is promising to be even better! Ride your bike or your scooter or just amble on down to East Lynn Park this Thursday, from 3 til 7. Here’s the lineup:

  • Bike/scooter decorating with Mischief Makers
  • Face Painting with Sarah
  • Bike safety quiz with a prize wheel featuring prizes from Carter’s Ice Cream, Silly Goose Kids,  Cyclepath and market vendors
  • Market deals for everyone wearing a bike helmet or a 32 Spokes sticker (get yours at the DECA tent when you do the bike safety quiz)
  • Light tuneups on your bike with 32 Spokes
  • Info and advocacy from local cycling groups

Pop-up and Rotating Vendors this week include Borrel Fries, The Spice Drawer, Red Tape Brewery, Bata Maple Syrup and Beef, Just Shut up and Try it Fermentations, Cedar Hedge Farms

Kidpreneurs this week are POMS Jewelry and TT Slimes!

See you at the market!

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This week’s market highlights; bike day volunteers; ARTS FAIR!

Farmers’ Market Highlights

Bring all your pressing gardening questions to the market this week and have a chat with the Master Gardeners here on their monthly visit to the Community Booth.

In our Local Business Pop-up Vendor tents, you can get tostones from The Stranded Plantain and sweet treats from Mortimer Bakeshop. Our brewery this week is Saulter Street.

Our Kidpreneurs this week will be Thready or Not with crochet stuffies and bracelets and Alicia’s Critters with handmade clay figurines.

Bike Day 2:  August 29

Our second annual Bike Day at the Market is fast approaching! If you/your teen are interested in volunteering, we are looking for people to help run our Bike Safety Quiz and draw. Please email Rebecca at green@deca.to

Arts Fair is Back!!!

We are so excited about the return of the Danforth East Community Arts Fair in East Lynn Park on  September  21  and  22!

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Your Weekly Market Highlights (and more)

Don’t forget your Community Fridge donation this week!

Some things we are looking forward to this week:

Farmers’ Sodas — a popup venture from an enterprising local 14-year-old vendor with tasty homemade sodas

Keystone Preserves — another popup, with a wide variety of jams and jellies that capture the flavours of the season

Canine Social Company taking over the kid zone with glitter tattoos

Kidpreneurs KC Treats and Cozy Creations with mouthwatering baked goods and crocheted cuteness, respectively

Community Fridges in the community booth to collect donations of food and personal care items

Cedar Hedge Farm — back at the market for a couple of weeks with beautiful ripe tomatoes

Calling East End Crafters!

Also this Thursday, Craftic is hosting an afternoon of crafting at the Firkin, 2-4pm. You can check their Instagram here for all the details and rsvp to hello@craftic.com

Bike Day Help Wanted!

If you or your business are interested in contributing to our second annual Bike Day at the Market on August 29, email Rebecca at green@deca.to

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This week: Market Peaches 🍑 🍑🍑🍑 -and a Kidpreneur Spotlight

Sometimes an emoji is just an emoji! This week at the market we are excited to finally welcome back Warners Orchards with all their delicious peaches and other stone fruits. The market will also have a ton of fun things happening!

Kids’ activities this week include a return of the Strings for All Instrument Petting Zoo and a new guest, Face Painting with Sarah!

In our Community Booth Woodgreen Community Services  will be on hand to showcase what they do for the unmet needs of people in our neighbourhood.

Our Popup Vendors for this week are especially exciting! We’ll have sweet treats from Mortimer Bakeshop, nut butters from Wholesome DeeLights  and sandwiches from everyone’s favourite neighbourhood butcher, Royal Beef!

Spotlight on Kidpreneurs

Back in 2022, financial literacy advocate, author, and all-round good neighbour Clifton Corbin was inspired by a program for kids starting up at Leslieville Farmers’ Market. He reached out to the program organizer who generously shared her materials to start the East Lynn Farmers’ Market Kidpreneur Program, and it took off!

We are now halfway through our third Kidpreneur season. Each week, we have 2 different entrepreneurs signed up, selling everything from jewelry to handmade chocolates to personal portraits. Kids give a portion of their profits to a charity of their choice (animal rescues, hospitals top the list) in addition to the $10 table fee that goes toward DECA’s market activities.

This week’s kidpreneurs are really exciting. We are happy to welcome Plants by Naytay and Rainbow Reaxx Art. Here are their goals for the week:

Rainbowreaxx Art (second year!): I want to share my art with people. 

Plants by Naytay: I want more people to be introduced to the benefits of plants, and how they can purify the air. Also how they can change a whole room’s look. they’re cheap, easier to care for than you think, and can be a fun hobby for all ages. Plants are like people. their roots tell a bigger story than their leaves. My plants’ roots and foliage are flawless and pest-less, and receive much better care than big box stores. they are truly unique and won’t die in 5 minutes.

Whether you’re just there for the fresh, verified-local food or you want to spend an afternoon soaking up the vibes in the park, we look forward to seeing you on Thursday, 3-7 pm!

 

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What’s in your market tote?

Peak summer is peak time for AMAZING market foods. And this week our usual vendors are accompanied by One Last Thing  charcuterie and spiced up with Charby’s Craft Sauces — so many delicious things to enjoy! And you can wash it all down with Great Lakes Brewery beer (or a homegrown ginger ale from Gingerbug) this week.

Kids Activities

In the kids’ tent, Strings for All will offer a stringed instrument petting zoo to get children and adults interested in learning a stringed instrument, such as violin, viola, cello, double bass. You can find them on instagram and facebook.

We are also lucky to have Pegasus Dance  back in the park to run some dance activities and some crafts! They are also on instagram  and facebook.

Our Kidpreneurs this week are RG Designs handmade bracelets and Sophia’s Acrylic Wristlet Keychains — make sure to check them out!

Bike Day – Planners/Contributors wanted!

We are looking forward to hosting “Bike Day 2” at the market on August 29. If you are interested in helping to plan or contribute, please email Rebecca at green@deca.to — and check out our post from last year to see what we got up to!

As always, we would love to have more volunteers to help the market happen:

Volunteer Signup

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Market Joy for this Week: some strings attached

Sorry for the pun, but we are very excited for the musical weeks ahead, where kids can try out stringed instruments at the market. This week Lane School of Music is with us. Here’s what they have lined up:

Our ‘instrument petting zoo’ is designed to give kids the opportunity to try out most of the instruments we offer at LSM in a low stress and engaging environment. We bring a violin, guitar, ukulele and foam cello, as well as musical colouring pages and markers. Our staff are on hand to assist kids (and adults!) in how to hold the instrument properly and make sound, as well as answer any questions about music lessons and LSM that market goers may have.

In other market joys, here’s a great post from our own Ampersand Bakehouse vendor, Stephanie:

https://ampersandbakehouse.com/blogs/life/make-the-most-of-the-farmers-market-this-summer

Our Community Booth this week will have Master Gardeners on hand to answer all your questions. And don’t forget to visit our Kidpreneurs, “The Dark Side” Chocolates and “K’s Jewels”

Finally, we are still looking for volunteers who can help make the market happen! Please sign up here:

https://danfortheastcommunityassociation.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/?id=87381