Dufferin Grove Organic Farmers' Market

The Weekly Market Notes for Thursday September 2nd(3:00pm - 7:00pm) are on-line. We're having a wonderful season at the market! Read more>>

The Farmers' Market continues all year round, every Thursday. You'll find it outdoors near the park buildings for the summer. Read more >>

Dufferin Grove Park has been sent to Civics class

The park and the bureaucracy: read more

So many letters...from the neighbourhood and beyond: Letters (1), Letters (2), Letters (3)

The City takes notice: Malcolm Bromley, the City of Toronto's Director of Recreation, asked Recreation manager Costanza Allevato to work on a new "community engagement framework." She asked us: "what happens at Dufferin Grove Park?" On Sunday May 16, we did this partial census of activities. And we sent her a description of on-site staff work too.

But now Mr.Bromley has taken a year's leave of absence to try running Parks and Recreation in Vancouver. It's unclear whether the "community engagement" meetings will continue.

The July - August Newsletter is now on-line

• Clay and Paper Theatre
• Wading Pool
• MacGregor Park
• Regular programs
  • FRIDAY NIGHT SUPPER
  • Campfires
• Park tree history
• Tale of two playgrounds
• Help from Elinor Ostrom
• A park bake-oven café?

CAMPFIRES

For the summer and fall, there are two small-group campfire locations – centre path and south path. The centre path fire circle is in the middle of the park, and the south path fire circle is beside the cob courtyard. The park’s recreation staff book the cooking fire times. They also give fire safety training and are available to help start/end your fire. You can reach them at 416-392-0913 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              416-392-0913      end_of_the_skype_highlighting or email staff@dufferinpark.ca, Read more >>

Regular activities:

posted May 16, 2008

FRIDAY NIGHT SUPPERS

FRIDAY NIGHT SUPPERS

Supper is on from 6 to 7.30. There is always soup, a vegetarian or vegan entrée, a meat entrée, a side dish, a salad, and dessert. Most of the groceries are bought at the organic farmers’ market on Thursday, and most of the cooking is done in the outdoor wood-fired bake-ovens. The food is tasty, and conforms largely to the 100-mile “locavore” boundary. There’s a suggested donation, all of which goes back into the park, and to pay for the groceries. But if you can’t spare the cash, donate at some other time – nobody goes away hungry! (Of course, if you feel like donating more than the suggested amount, that’s fine too.)

Click here for this Friday's menu.

The playground café at the outdoor cob kitchen

Open 7 days a week except if it's raining. There's coffee, juices and pop, muffins and park cookies, organic hot dogs and Dufferin pitas (with Mary Sylwester's bean burgers, salads, and other surprises.

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Pizza Day details: 2010

Public PIZZA DAYS: Sundays, 1 pm to 3 pm, and Wednesdays 12 to 2 pm. (weather permitting) $2.50 per pizza is the requested donation. You get a lump of dough, some tomato sauce, and cheese, and you can pick toppings from the park gardens when they’re growing there. If you plan to bring a big group (more than 12 people altogether) please call ahead to warn the staff 416-392-0913 or email staff@dufferinpark.ca.”

Birthday parties with pizza: You can book an hour on Sundays before or after the public pizza times (i.e. birthday party bookings are at 12pm or 3 pm on Sundays). Program costs are $60, plus the regular $2.50 per pizza. If you can’t afford that, park staff will work out a trade with you. To book: contact staff at 416-392-0913 or staff@dufferinpark.ca

In the Neighbourhood

Local service providers

If a pipe bursts in your basement or your roof leaks, where do you turn? Find out your neighbours' favourite fixers, where your neighbours like to go out to eat, who they go to for piano lessons, and more. This list Local Service Providers is a compendium of listserv posts from four local lists

In Neighbourhood Section, there is a repository of information, stories, and notices from around the neighbourhood. It includes Community News And Notices , Local Artists and Performers , and some Picture Galleries.

There are lots of neighbourhood stories and news items in the neighbourhood section of the celos.ca website.

Clean Train Coalition’s GO ELECTRIC music event

Mark the Date!

Pressure mounts on Premier McGuinty to GO ELECTRIC!!

You are cordially invited to attend the ''Clean Train Coalition’s GO ELECTRIC music event on Sunday, September 26th in Sorauren Park, from 1:00pm – 5:00pm. Local musicians will perform throughout the afternoon, with keynote speakers taking the stage at 3:00pm.

Join the growing number of Torontonians who understand that electrified transit on the Georgetown Corridor is the only sustainable option we have.

Let’s build it once. Let’s build it right.

(Charity BBQ. Kids games. Bring your own chair. Rain or shine.)