Location

Established: 2007
Days and Times of Operation: Saturdays, 8 am to noon, year-round Market Manager: Cookie Roscoe Handford. 416 651 7867 x24.  gbmarket@thestop.org
Administered by: Rhonda Teitel Payne, The Stop. rhonda@thestop.org

This market is located at the Artscape Wychwood TTC Barns, 79 Wychwood Avenue in the covered street barn.  The nearest subway station is the St.Clair West Subway Station.  

History & Profile of Market

We are a neighbourhood based market, one of the Toronto Farmers Market Network (tfmn.ca) of organic or sustainable vendors, primarily farmers. You will find local seasonal food here, from baby greens in May to bushels of tomatoes in September. You'll also find honey, bread, cheese, fish and meats, grains, jams, syrup, wildcrafted foods, mushrooms, and lots of friendly gossip year round. We often feature local music and an area for kids to play and network. We are a natural growth component of the Artscape Wychwood project, where a neighbourhood managed to save a 4 acre site and 4 of the 5 buildings on it from being demolished to instead create a diverse park. The Green Barn is one of the buildings on the site transformed into a geothermally heated/cooled hub of environmentally aware food activism for the neighbourhood and the city.

Number of Vendors: Approximately 35 - 40 vendors 

Vendor Profiles

Stoddart Family Farm brings seasonal garden produce as well as duck, guinea fowl and chicken. You may purchase Ontario grown and spun wool from Silvia's flock of Organic sheep at their booth. The Stoddart family host a herd of heirloom cattle, White Park, which you may read about on their website, www.stoddart.ca

Forbes Wild Foods, www.wildfoods.ca, bring maple syrup and wild rice to the market which they have traded with first nations people for some of the foods they glean on farm land and in wild areas of Ontario, always sustainably, always ethically. You'll find incredibly delicious treats here like wild strawberry jam, dried chestnuts and Ontario black walnuts.

We're very proud of all our vendors, many of whom you won't find at any other city market, some of whom you will. If you are looking to do your week's shopping at a friendly place where you can meet your neighbour, talk to the people who crafted your cheese or grew your beets or knew the lamb (and how to cook it) that you're having for dinner, then this is the place for you.