Fall Farm Fest – EVERYONE WELCOME !
Bring your family and friends – Free to attend
At the Just Food Community Farm
This Sunday, October 2 2022
11am – 3pm
2391 Pepin Court, Ottawa (in Blackburn Hamlet, just East of Vanier)
Admission: FREE
FREE Activities:
- Live Music for the full 4 hours
- Wagon Ride Farm Tours – or walk around the farm and see what’s happening
- Bring Your Own Picnic and enjoy
- Garden Tool Sharpening Workshop – Courtesy of the Ottawa Tool Library – Bring your tools and learn to sharpen them!
- Open House for Women Warriors Healing Garden (with donkeys, chickens, and support for women and 2SLBGTQ+ veterans)
- Apples from COG-OSO (while supplies last)
- Take a Fall Photo Selfie on the hay bales
- Artery Coffee Roasters Coffee – with donations requested to GEFC
- Walking tours at Red Barn Community Food Forest by Forêt Capitale Forest
Activities with a charge:
- Dominion City Brewery Beer Garden (with beer and non-alcoholic seltzers)
- Axe Throwing by BATL Axe Throwing Ottawa !!
- Just Food Farmers’ Farm Stand – fresh and preserved local food
- Food Vendors including:
- The Sheepdog Grill – serving local lamb kebab and lamb sausages (on a stick or in a bun)
- Yasmin Syrian Catering seasoned rice with veggies harvested from the Just Food Community Farm
- Almanac Bakery
- Raffle Proceeds going to the Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard
- $2 per ticket or $5 for 3 tickets
- Raffle Prizes:
- Two tickets to an Ottawa Senators Game, courtesy of our sponsor, Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP. Two 100-level club seats and a lot one parking pass to the Ottawa Senators v. Winnipeg, Saturday, January 21, 2023, @ 7:00 p.m!
- 1,000 AIR MILES Reward Miles, courtesy of our sponsor, ROCK Networks!
- One of Two golf passes, courtesy of our sponsor, Pineview Golf Club!
- One of Two family memberships, courtesy of our sponsor, Gloucester Horticultural Society!
How to get there:
- Bus 25 will drop you off right outside of the farm – runs from Blair Station every 30 minutes
- Free Parking on-site or if full, in adjacent neighbourhood (careful – no parking allowed on Tauvette).
- Accessed by bike with on-site bike racks
- Accessible on-foot from most of Blackburn Hamlet
- Please Note: Highway 417 will be closed from Metcalfe St to Carling/Kirkwood Avenues from September 30th-October 4th. Please plan your route accordingly
Brought to you by:
Just Food
Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard
Canadian Organic Growers-Ottawa/St.Lawrence/Outaouais Chapter
Ottawa Tool Library
Women Warriors Healing Garden
Forêt Capitale Forest
