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Food In The Park
Food In The Park
At Dufferin Grove Park, food is an important part of the social scene, so there's a lot of it, and it's the best quality, and the most interesting, that the cooks can manage.
Most of the food sold at the park is purchased at the Thursday Farmers' Market (most of the food is organic), prepared in the Zamboni Kitchen, and cooked in the Bake Ovens.
It's then distributed through the cob courtyard cafe at the playground during the summer, through the Zamboni Cafe in the rinkhouse during winter, and at Friday Night Suppers by the Bake Ovens that are held most of the year.
Oh, and several hundred loaves of bread baked in the ovens are sold at the Farmers' Market each week. Not to mention pizzas prepared by neighbours themselves at the Pizza Days...
Not only does all this food enliven many of the activities and social scenes around the park, it also raises funds to support other park projects.
About food prices at the park:
The price list reflects how much money is needed to pay for the ingredients that went into the food, plus your donation toward park programs.
Half the suggested price is the ingredients cost, the other half is raising park funds. If you don't want to pay the "donation" part, just pay half.
On the other hand, if you find the park food very cheap and good and you feel like donating more, pay double, or whatever additional amount you choose. Every penny goes to the park.
And if there are days when you can't afford to pay even half, pay less, or nothing at all. You might want to help out with some work instead. Help wash dishes, water trees, shovel sand back into the sandpit, pick up all the litter. Help is much appreciated, and that goes for kids too.
If you help out a lot, you might find your money no longer works at Dufferin Grove, and you have to eat for free all the time.
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